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CarolSampaio

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melita916 said:
this happens to me with phone calls.

1) yesterday, someone called, and i couldn't tell if it was a man or woman. it was difficult to not say sir/ma'am, so i just waited til i got the name. fortunately, it wasn't one of those names that can go with either lol!

2) then i had to make a call. the name written down on the message was a guy name, but when the person answered the call, it didn't sound like a guy at all :\

the struggle.
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Oh Melita... I totally know this struggle...

Here in Brazil, in a polite formal setting, we don't use "you"... it's rude... we always say "the sir" or "the ma'am"... it sounds strange in English, but it's usual in Portuguese... and yeah... it's really hard when we don't know what to use...
 
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CarolSampaio said:
Oh... sorry about that... for some weird reason I thought it was Irish... not Scottish... well.. I was multitasking... hehehehe My attention was all over the place... I'll be more carefull not to mix things up in the future... ;)



Wow... this IS weird... hehehehehe
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What do you mean weird, its our most famous meal ... how could you completely destroy my culture with one slap ... I mean look at us were totally normal and nothing w kilt.0.jpg eird whatsoever :D!!!
 
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What do you mean weird, its our most famous meal ... how could you completely destroy my culture with one slap ... I mean look at us were totally normal and nothing w View attachment 140157 eird whatsoever :D!!!
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I got no problem with that... none at all... if all you Scottish guys look like that on a kilt, I'm going to Scotland on the next flight... hehehehehe

And saying that haggis is weird is not destroying the dish (let alone the culture)... if that was so, then saying feijoada is weird would be destroying the dish (and our culture) as well... and I love it through and through... so...

 
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CarolSampaio said:
Oh Melita... I totally know this struggle...

Here in Brazil, in a polite formal setting, we don't use "you"... it's rude... we always say "the sir" or "the ma'am"... it sounds strange in English, but it's usual in Portuguese... and yeah... it's really hard when we don't know what to use...
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I'm guessing... trying to politely say, "the it" wouldn't go over too well...
 
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seoulsearch said:
I'm guessing... trying to politely say, "the it" wouldn't go over too well...
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That's the thing, Seoul... there is no "it" in Portuguese... everything has a gender... it's always either a she or a he... there is no it!!!
 
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CarolSampaio said:
That's the thing, Seoul... there is no "it" in Portuguese... everything has a gender... it's always either a she or a he... there is no it!!!
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Wow, that's really interesting.

How about, for example:

1. Shoes?

2. Time?

3. A prison?

I'm just curious... I like learning about other cultures! :)
 
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seoulsearch said:
Wow, that's really interesting.

How about, for example:

1. Shoes? (male)

2. Time? (male)

3. A prison? (female)

I'm just curious... I like learning about other cultures! :)
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It's like that... we don't have an article like "the"... we have "o" which is male, and "a" which is female...

So you'll have:

The shoe (o sapato)
The time (o tempo)
The prison (a prisão)
The table (a mesa)
The dog (o cachorro / a cadela)
The cat (o gato / a gata)

And so on.... :)
 
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Same thing with french, every noun has a gender

Le/un The/A masculine
La/une The/A feminine
 
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I was trying to remember some high school German, but as I recall, German has the neutral gender "das", though they still have words that wind up with a "gender" ("der" or "die".)

Then again... this is something I learned when I was about 16, which was a LONG time ago, so all you language experts (or Germans) out there please feel free to correct me.
 
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CarolSampaio said:
I got no problem with that... none at all... if all you Scottish guys look like that on a kilt, I'm going to Scotland on the next flight... hehehehehe

And saying that haggis is weird is not destroying the dish (let alone the culture)... if that was so, then saying feijoada is weird would be destroying the dish (and our culture) as well... and I love it through and through... so...



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I love ur cooking so make it now!!! lol
 
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That awkward moment when you wait in line for an hour at the license bureau only to discover when it's your turn that you forgot something.
 
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When you knew it was going to be a quiet one but did not expect it to be a stinky one :confused: :(
 
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So it was YOU!!!

My uncle Brent was on a jet one time and he let one that (from the reactions of people in the plane) apparently circled the whole cabin three times. Uncle Stanley said, "I would have stood up and claimed that one!"
 
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I was supposed be taking a 20 minute power nap after the road trip to my parents last night, and next thing I know, it's 500 am. Oops.

Time for food prep and music!
 
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that awkward moment when the patient is trying to be funny, but he really wasn't funny, so you just have to give an awkward chuckle.
 
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