Hahaha...A BRAZILIAN translation?

Sephirstein

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Someone must have been smoking lots of ganja this morning: There's no such a language as Brazilian; they speak Portuguese.

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Differences
> are differences.
You need to find a hobby. I suggest you
> drop pissing me off. It's not worth it.

I agree with you that differences are differences, and I know that there are significant differences between the dialects, but the language is still called Portuguese and the proper way to distinguish between the two is to say "European Portuguese" and "Brazilian Portuguese".

We don't have a language called Mexican (contrary to what the Conmander in Cheat may think) just because the dialect of Spanish spoken in Mexico is very different from that which is spoken in Spain.


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Maybe so, but let's put this into a different perspective. While we don't have a language called "American" despite having many differences in both spelling and pronounciation from the English dialect spoken in, say, the United Kingdom, typically people call both dialects "English" unless you're a fucking bleeding-heart PC type, or unless you're a language selector in Linux.

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> While we don't have a language called "American" despite
> having many differences in both spelling and pronounciation
> from the English dialect spoken in, say, the United Kingdom,
> typically people call both dialects "English" unless you're
> a fucking bleeding-heart PC type.

Brazilian people never call their language Brazilian: So what reason would ZD have to call it anything other than Brazilian Portuguese?


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> Brazilian people never call their language Brazilian: So
> what reason would ZD have to call it anything other than
> Brazilian Portuguese?

This is semantic crap. Why don't you do something constructive for a change - go to the source and tell devilfox not to submit translations as Brazilian, but rather Brazilian Portugese. Tell him you're unhappy. Tell him how his months of hard work were undermined completely by his STUPID STUPID inability to work out exactly what dialect he speaks. Tell him that the better-knowing Brazilian Portugese speakers of the world deserve, nay demand better. Godammit, their lives are difficult enogh as it is, between being robbed by street urchins and chased by monkeys, without such hideous, glaring, unforgiveable misnomers as this.

Let us know how you get on.

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You know, it's submitted as Brazilian, it stays that way..unless you get a degree in linguistics, you can't tell me otherwise.
There are classes in Brazilian language. Not Brazilian Portuguese, as it should be, but Brazilian.
Next time you even fucking infer I use drugs, find another web board. I do this for free. I don't get paid for it. I do it because I love it.
Don't try and make a mockery of someone else's labour of love.
End of discussion.

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Was there another section added for it under Brazilian? It should be listed under Portuguese. Most Portuguese translations are Brazilian anyway.

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Oh, so there WAS a new section. Yeah, Brazilian Portuguese and normal Portuguese are both under the Portuguese section. Honestly, most Portuguese translations are from people in Brazil. I don't hear too terribly much about people in Portugal making translations, but from my understanding Portuguese and Brazilians can understand one another.


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im pretty sure any portuguese translation i ever added was brazilian portuguese, but it doesnt matter very much anyways

flash e meu pai, e tambem narvick e meu mai :D!

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> Maybe so, but let's put this into a different perspective.
> While we don't have a language called "American" despite
> having many differences in both spelling and pronounciation
> from the English dialect spoken in, say, the United Kingdom,
> typically people call both dialects "English"

I call what we speak here as american and not english...mainly just because we've butchered the english language by adding laziness and the like. Also, some words like Colour and Armour are spelled differently. Therefore shouldn't it be considered as american?

P.S. My post is mainly intended for comedy.

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What does that mean? :o

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I dunno, but I think it's got something to do with that creepy avatar of his...
Seriously, why don't I just combine the Brazilian/Portuguese trans under that title?
Any objections?

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> Any objections?

Yes, if only out of principle. The request is reasonable enough, but it was originally made in such an arsehole-ish fashion it'd be sad to see it honoured. Having said that, combining the two would probably serve the greater good, so best just going ahead. But if you wanted to ban that bloody troll while you're at it, though, that would be peachy.

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Your'e right. It would be in the greater good of the site; yet people like Sepherenstien live for shit like this.
To try to make themselves feel important; given, a moment of triumph.
Screw 'em. He didn't win.
He can argue all he wants, if it was theoretically that close to Portuguese, why do a bunch of accredited universities recognize Brazilian as a different language? Because it is.
Just like Spanish has different offshoots (oh, and Spanish is not that far from Portuguese), alll languages have differences in dialect, grammer rules and slang.
Screw it.
This whole thread is just so wrong.
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I call what we speak here as american and not english...mainly just because we've butchered the english language by adding laziness and the like. Also, some words like Colour and Armour are spelled differently. Therefore shouldn't it be considered as american?

I like to put it this way: We took the language, dropped the parts that didn't make any sense, added our own parts that didn't make sense, and called it the same thing <img src=smilies/thumb.gif>

Speaking of calling it "American," I am brought back to an early moment on one of the original TEK boards where this guy started in on Tony because he said he was an American. Apparently, the guy thought he should call himself a United States citizen, not an American, for who-knows-why. It resulted in the guy running away from the board crying and Tony referring to himself as a "USer" for a while, which I thought was pretty funny.

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It is the same thing with Croation and Serbian.
They are the same language, yet so different.


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1. I don't use drugs.
2. Check here dipstick.
Differences
> are differences.
You need to find a hobby. I suggest you
> drop pissing me off. It's not worth it.

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Yeah but you still don't classify UK english translations with "Armour" rather than "armor" into British and American. C'mon, give the guy a break and lighten up. Perhaps you SHOULD try some ganja.


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It is difficult for Flash to lighten up on this particular poster. He has a tendency to spew ignorant and thoughtless garbage in his posts.

To bad that amusing feud between him and Red seems to be over. I would like to lock them both up in a room and see which one comes out alive or if romantic tensions collide and they come out a couple!

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