Some friends moved to Portugal this summer. She is originally from Brazil, her husband learned Portugese so he could talk to her before she learned English, and both her children speak the language as well. She says Brazilian Portugese and Portugal Portugese are not quite the same thing.
No, they're not. I tried to study Portuguese at evening classes before moving here and it was Brazilian. I was also chatting to a Brazilian lady go recently and she said ALagarvian Portuguese is almost impossible for her. Not a clue what they are saying! LoL
My father spoke Spanish so I grew up hearing it at home and took it in school. As an adult, I signed up for a Spanish course and discovered the teacher was from Ecuador, with quite different pronunciations from the Mexican Spanish I was used to. I dropped the class to avoid completely tying myself in knots. My current tutor speaks Castillian Spanish. Either my Spanish is finally good enough that the differences don't throw me or Castillian is closer to what I grew up with. My problem now is my memory isn't as good as it used to be. Soooooo frustrating.
Yeah, I hear mostly the Guatemalan version. Similar to Mexican, but the curses are all different. Dominicans, too. I can make decent guesses to which country a Latino hails from based on the swearing.
The cultural behaviours of the Spanish are somewhat different. Don’t know if anyone tuned in to the women’s World Cup football, but when Spain won, all the attention went on Luis Rubiales who was accused of publically assaulting one of the girls because he kissed them on the lips instead of just the standard handshake. In reality he kissed every member on the team to congratulate the players instead of the standard handshake, he even kissed the male coach. I saw him do that, thought it was very weird. He was publically slandered for it in the press the next day. Totally eclipsed the victory of the Spanish team’s win in the news. He obviously didn’t want to do it for you if he thought you could do it for yourself. It’s the cost of the added labour, you know. Not gonna happen.
That my 6.5 lb Yorkie costs as much to groom as a 100 lb rottweiler. That's like paying a paver the same to skim a driveway as an airstrip at LaGuardia. Though these mobile grooming trucks that come to your house are pretty convenient. Takes two months to get an appointment, but well worth it.
Yellow ink pens. Really!? What do you even use them for?? Its not even a gel pen so you cant use it on dark paper. Its not highlighter bright either. Its the equivalent of a yellow crayon. Useless
Bloody idiots who have ideas and then ask for help in developing it only to then tell the helper it's all wrong! Next time, bud, do your own bloody research
My dog has a snow suit with booties lol. When he was a puppy, he trembled so bad in the winter and wouldnt want to go outisde. And once outside, he'd stand on my feet and not the ground. Its cold in MI!
I have a short-haired greyhound mix who feels the cold a lot. If we spend much time outside, she needs extra covering. That being said, puppy dog tutus and other costumes are certainly not, um, dignified.
FERAL Children. Maybe I'm becoming an old curmudgeon... but seriously. I went to a Christmas fayre this evening with some friends. One friend rested on a Zimmer frame because he could hardly walk, and I'm not exactly steady on my pins thanks to a balance issue - one puff of wind, and I'm flat on my back... anyways said feral kids are charging around in the crowds playing tag bumping into people and being PITAs. One kid charged straight into me, knocking me off balance and straight into a display stand. Parents, if you can't control your pigging kids, put them on a leash. Bah humbug... grump... grump...
People who can't be bothered with decorating for Christmas or anything to do with Christmas.. then make a huge fuss and treat someone like an escaped patient from the nut house when despite being on their own for the holidays, have made an effort with a tree and decorations, films, music. Just because you don't give a f**k doesn't mean I shouldn't just because I'm alone for the holidays. Some of us happen to love Christmas
We've just returned from a friend's birthday party (left early). We'd been there about 10 minutes, and the hostess pulled us to one side and informed us someone was coming whose wife is very ill with COVID, but the Birthday boy still wanted the husband to come. The birthday boy knows my husband has health issues, yet he was prepared to put us and all the other partygoers at risk because he wanted this guy to come. My hubby immediately said when he arrives, we would be leaving. Our close friends arrived. They have a BIG family Christmas planned and their baby grandson is coming. His first Christmas. Birthday boy informed them once they sat down with a drink. Um... how bloody selfish. I got COVID in May. My hubby never got sick until six days later. That's my husband. I put up ALL the decorations. IT's Christmas FFS.
@PiP, I can understand someon wanting to see a friend on their birthday. They did make an effort to notify the other guests about the issue. A seperate celebration with the sick friend would have been a better choice, but notification was a second best choice.
It would have been better to notify people before they arrived. Once we were there, it was awkward. The Birthday boy was not going to tell us. IT was his wife who took us aside. I know people treat COVID like a bout of flu but even so it is contagious. My daughter got COVID and nearly died. There was no room in the hospital, so she slept with an oxygen tank at home. Perhaps I am more sensitive (neurotic
It shows the character of the person having the birthday, and his wife. At least one had the integrity to do the correct thing even if it was late. Once it was know one guest was sick, the rest should have been notified, then they could consider the risk and make their decision.
They are both pretty delightful. But “burglarize” appears earlier by a few decades so one might as well ask what was wrong with it. I do think burgle may have been an improvement.
Or "deplane". I know it's shorter than "disembark", but do you "decar"? Or "derail"? Or "debed"? OK, you sometimes "dehorse", I'll give you that.
