22 Oct
2012
22 Oct
'12
6:16 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 11:27:17AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/10/2012 10:58 AM, Alexandre Souza - Listas
wrote:
In our country, people think that the USA is the center of the world,
the biggest in the world, and the most important in the world. Most
people here think EVERYONE whose skin is a shade darker than ours is
"Mexican", they all speak "Spanish", and they all eat "Mexican
food".
I can probably count on one hand the number of people here who realize
that:
1. Portuguese is the primary language in Brazil
1.1. The Portuguese spoken in Brazil has a pile of small, but important
(and potentially embarrassing) differences from the Portuguese
spoken in Portugal.
QUINZE
MIL FLOPPIES??? Que voces vao fazer com tanto disquete assim?!
C: In englaise sil vous plaint. No sprekenzy deutsche! Nor espanolay.
Pardon, mon signeur...I though it was a personal message :) Esto non
es espa?ol, pero que en Brasil hablamos el portuguese :) 2. Brazil is almost exactly the same size as the
USA
3. Brazil has about 2/3 as many citizens as the USA
4. Brazil's currency is NOT the Peso
(tongue firmly in cheeck) Of course not, the Peso is the currency of the
USA, right? (bloke I know keeps talking about the "US Peso")
5. Mexico is a part of North America
It is very embarrassing sometimes. :-( I'm a
person who failed nearly
every course in high school, due to disinterest and a crappy system, and
even *I* know these things!
Having brazilian cow-orkers can be quite enlightening ;-)
Kind regards,
Alex.
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looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison