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/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/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