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Semifinals: Cafuné vs многоꙮчитїй, mnogoočitii
(poll at the end)
Cafuné (Portuguese, Brazilian Portugese)
Portugal: [kɐ.fuˈnɛ] Brazil: [ka.fuˈnɛ]
Translation: The act of running your fingers through someone's hair in a tender way, usually massaging or gently scratching their scalp
Portuguese is an Indo-European language belonging to the Romance branch originating from Portugal. Due to colonialism it is the main and official language of Brazil, where 213 million of its 264 million speakers live. Brazilian Portuguese is considered a dialect of Portuguese as they are mutually intelligible.
Motivation 1: It can be platonic! It can be romantic! It's a cute thing!
Motivation 2: vsjsh affection....... 💞💞 it’s a very sweet gesture it’s very nice and comforting and makes you feel safe
Note: There were two submissions for this word, one in each dialect. Since it’s the same word but with slight pronunciation differences they will compete together
многоꙮчитїй, mnogoočitii (Old Church Slavonic)
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Translation: many-eyed
Old Church Slavonic is an extinct language that belonged to the Slavic branch of Indo-European languages. It’s closest related to today’s Macedonian and Bulgarian, but was standardised based on the dialect of Slavs living near 9th century Thessaloniki in today’s Greece by missionaries, who translated Christian literature so they could convert people easier. Old Church Slavonic was then used as the liturgical language of various Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Churches. A later version of the language called Church Slavonic is still in use in churches today.
Motivation: This particular instance of the word appears once in a manuscript from around 1429. It is the book of psalms, and the word is used in the phrase "серафими многоꙮчитїй," to mean "many-eyed seraphim," as in an angel. the "ꙮ", or multiocular o, is one of my favorite Unicode symbols and also symbols in general. In the next version of Unicode it's going to be updated, because it doesn't even have enough eyes as the original manuscript gave it! Looking past the ꙮ fixation, though, I'm a fan of angels and angelic imagery, as well as eye imagery. A single word for "many-eyed" is really cool to me, since I don't recall there being one in English. It's a useful phrase for more than just angels, like spiders, molluscs...
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bookish-library · 3 months
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Y'all I finally got around to learning portuges (continuing to learn French and Spanish) and holy cow Busuu is awesome, it even tells you how to abbreviate it in text messages this is awesome
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lubentina · 2 months
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Josefa de Óbidos (Portugese, c.1630-1684)
St. Francis and St. Clare of Assisi in adoration of the Infant Christ, 1647, probably after Gerard Seghers
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moominismad · 2 months
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Nossa, nossa
Assim você me mata
Ai, se eu te pego
Ai, ai se eu te pego
Delícia, delícia
Assim você me mata
Ai, se eu te pego
Ai, ai, se eu te pego
Sábado na balada
A galera começou a dançar
E passou a menina mais linda
Tomei coragem e comecei a falar
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forpsalms · 1 year
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REFEIÇÃO, Maria Auxiliadora, 1970
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Cristiano Ronaldo
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Nazare, Portugal. April 2022      
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aspirationatwork · 9 months
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Just a list of things that I, a native English speaker, think would be confusing to people who speak other languages.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR
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lunar new year too ! happy new year and wish you get rich for all my friends out there :)
lots of love 💛💛💛
translation (wih the aid of google):
french: Where is my uncle’s hat?
german: Ute (is a name meaning wealth, prosperity). where is the hat?
spanish: where is the library!!!???
greek: Merry Christmas !
japanese: Merry Christmas !
portugese: Merry Christmas !
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what-if-i-just-did · 18 days
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My friend, after correctly saying a 4-word sentence in Spanish: "I'm a professional Spanisher."
Note that she's Portugese.
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tetrachromate · 1 year
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Tangier circa 1471 AD
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Round one: Ojalá vs Cafuné
Ojalá (Spanish)
[oxaˈla]
Translation: Hopefully, I hope
Spanish is an Indo-European language belonging to the Romance branch. It’s spoken by 559 million people worldwide, 46,6 million of those in Spain and 74 million as a second language. It’s counted as the second largest language (based on number of native speakers) after Mandarin.
Motivation: It’s so pretty to say and it’s an all around good word
Cafuné (Portuguese, Brazilian Portugese)
Portugal: [kɐ.fuˈnɛ] Brazil: [ka.fuˈnɛ]
Translation: The act of running your fingers through someone's hair in a tender way, usually massaging or gently scratching their scalp
Portuguese is an Indo-European language belonging to the Romance branch originating from Portugal. Due to colonialism it is the main and official language of Brazil, where 213 million of its 264 million speakers live. Brazilian Portuguese is considered a dialect of Portuguese as they are mutually intelligible.
Motivation 1: It can be platonic! It can be romantic! It's a cute thing!
Motivation 2: vsjsh affection....... 💞💞 it’s a very sweet gesture it’s very nice and comforting and makes you feel safe
Note: There were two submissions for this word, one in each dialect. Since it’s the same word but with slight pronunciation differences they will compete together
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cinesludge · 4 months
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Movie #94 of 2023: Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
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lubentina · 2 months
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Josefa de Óbidos (Portugese, c.1630-1684)
Madalena Penitente, c.1661, Church of Santa Maria, Óbidos
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mystery-star · 1 year
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After finals our class goes to a trip together. First we wanted to go to Croatia but now it's Portugal instead.
And I'm like. Thank you. I can speak at least one word in Portugese.
Obrigado. (Thanks)
I'd say thank YOU Stephen and Master and Commander.
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gravity-rainbow · 1 year
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The moon is bright tonight
A lua está brilhante esta noite
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