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DnD Central / Os plural
Quote from: ersi on
For example, Old French feste(s) became modern fête(s). Not only did the plural marker s disappear (in speech), but also the word-internal syllable-final s. The same universal reduction of s's in syllable-final positions is going on in Spanish right now. Portuguese likely does not qualify for this development.
In Brazil something similar has been happening for a long time, but since the government or president Lula, it has widespread like a plague. When the article or pronoun is plural, the noun used to be plural, but now, not only the final "s" has been dropped, but the plural altogether.

"the women" = "as mulheres" > "as mulher"
"two trucks" = "dois caminhões" > "dois caminhão"

Though it sounds just disgusting.
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DnD Central / Ladies and gentlemen
Quote from: Frenzie on
Could you write the phrase in Portuguese? Are the Lutherans afraid to offend transsexuals by saying something like "ladies and gentlemen"?

"Be welcome, everybody"

used to be:

"Sejam todos bem vindos"

but now they say:

"Sejam bem vindos e bem vindas, todos e todas".

It's crazy.

In Portuguese, every noun has a gender. Woman is female, man is male. Interesting enough, vagina is female, clitoris is male. Person is female, human being is male. Country is male, land is female. One exception is for geographic proper nouns. Some of them are genderless, and so you cannot use an article before them. Brazil is male (o Brasil). Germany is female (a Alemanha). Portugal is genderless (o Portugal? a Portugal? No...) Lisbon, Berlin, New York are genderless. Rio is male. Once you want to qualify a genderless location, you have to put a gender to its adjective. I'm not sure on how it works. I suppose, if you want to say "Portugal is beautiful", the adjective will be male or female depending on whether you are referring to the country or to the land... usually male.
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DnD Central / Re: The Awesomesauce with Religion
1. AFAIK, according to all mainstream Christian churches' doctrine, Jesus is not an angel. He is resurrected and he ascended to heavens with(in) his body. It's supposed to be a glorified body. Otherwise he could not enter locked rooms, or survive the lack of oxygen in outer space. No information whether his dong ascended with him, although he surely had one before having been crucified.

2. Since some years ago, Lutherans in Brazil insist on calling everybody by two genders as a norm, such as: "welcome and welcomess, people and peopless, everybodiers and everybodiesses!" (It sounds crazy even in Portuguese, and it's hard to explain it in English. Portuguese does not have a neutral gender particle.)
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DnD Central / Damn Mexicans!
 :sing: One single Mexican bothers many people.
One million Mexicans bother many more. :sing:
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DnD Central / Holy Constitution
It's only me who's been noticing that you must interpret the U. S. Constitution just like a kind of Holy Bible?!
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DnD Central / Kilts?
Though everybody here wears like this:

122
DnD Central / Pay get?
There must have existed a French person called Paiget. (And RJ should know it...)
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DnD Central / Bridges
That's why bridges are there. (And tunnels.)
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DnD Central / Island man
Everybody is an island.
(Or should it read "Nobody is an island"?)
Whatever.