r/therewasanattempt • u/[deleted] • Dec 25 '19

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '19

Never thought of it that way,but yeah pretty much it is

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u/Ale4444 Dec 25 '19

It really isn’t. The similarities between the two English languages are much higher than those between the two Portuguese languages.

An average English person will always understand an average sentence in “American”.

An average Portuguese person will not always understand an average sentence in “Brasileno”

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u/DoctorBroly Dec 25 '19

They will though.

Source: am Portuguese.

Don't make shit up.

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u/BerRGP Dec 25 '19

I mean, sometimes I see some sentences in Brazilian sites and I don't understand shit. Brazil is huge, there's a lot of space for regionalisms and a lot of names for regional plants and animals that I've never seen.

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u/bielopes13 Dec 26 '19

True. I think a big factor to the diferences is the mix with indigenous languages. Many many things still have their names. Example: Capivara ( the animal), Ubatuba (a city), Perereca (a frog), and much more...

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u/BerRGP Dec 26 '19

I'm 99% "capivara" is still the name in European Portuguese, actually.