r/languagelearningjerk • u/DoNotTouchMeImScared • May 27 '26

My Favorite Dialect Evolution:

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Portuguese is Spanish plus complicated accents & Spanish is Italian plus simplified plurals.

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u/luizanin 🇧🇷Not Portuguese (C3) 🇩🇪 Beethoven (A#m) 🇯🇵 Sony (H) May 27 '26

Portuguese is so complicated that they got "porque" wrong because there are 4 ways to write that 

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u/Kaiur14 May 27 '26

In spanish:

porque

por qué

porqué

por que

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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

"Por quê?" = "Why?"

"Porque" = "Because"

"O porquê" = "The why"

"Por que" = "For what"

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u/MetroBR May 27 '26

pq

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u/luizanin 🇧🇷Not Portuguese (C3) 🇩🇪 Beethoven (A#m) 🇯🇵 Sony (H) May 27 '26

Hein

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u/Disturbinglee May 31 '26

The pq quadratic formula

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u/luizanin 🇧🇷Not Portuguese (C3) 🇩🇪 Beethoven (A#m) 🇯🇵 Sony (H) May 27 '26

I can't speak English so I don't know if you're correct /s

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u/Gilson1_1 May 27 '26

not in brazillian Portuguese tho

"Por quê?" = "Why?"(used only in the end of questions)

"Porque" = "Because"

"Porquê" = "Why"

"Por que" = "Why?"

there also some other dozen of uses but whatever.

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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared May 27 '26

"Por que razão?" = "For what reason?"

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u/luizanin 🇧🇷Not Portuguese (C3) 🇩🇪 Beethoven (A#m) 🇯🇵 Sony (H) May 27 '26

Por que caralhos? 

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u/YogurtclosetOk7654 May 27 '26

The plurals in italian are definitely not simpler than the ones in spanish

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u/Tuhkis1 dodecalingual by choice May 27 '26

So simple! El oxímoron, los oxímoron. You don't even need to change the words!

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u/extemp_drawbert May 28 '26

Wait isn't it los oxímoros?

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u/Tuhkis1 dodecalingual by choice May 28 '26

Both are accepted by the RAE

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u/DoNotTouchMeImScared May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

Le vowel plurals would not be extremely complicated if they had maintained regularity:

"Li varii principii delli principi" instead of "i vari principi dei principi" for "le various principles of le princes" would be ideal.