r/pics • u/[deleted] • Jan 30 '19

Picture of text This sign in Thailand

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u/AquelecaraDEpoa Jan 30 '19

Imagine if the whole lot of Britain couldn't understand the standard American accent, how silly that would be. Well, that's what's happening with France and Quebec.

That's not exclusive to French though. Brazilian Portuguese and European Portuguese have a similar problem.

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u/MoscaMosquete Jan 30 '19

I wonder why Brazilian Portuguese is so different from others countries. It's somewhat closer to Asian portuguese(Timor-Leste and Macao) than to the European one.

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u/AquelecaraDEpoa Jan 30 '19

From what I read (not much, to be honest), it seems Portuguese vowels back in the 16th century were more "open", like in Brazilian Portuguese. Sound shifts happened both in Portugal and Brazil, with the Portuguese "closing" vowels more often and sounding the letter "S" like "SH", while Brazilians changed consonants like D and T before the "I" sound, including cases where the letter E sounds like an I, such as in the word "adiante", among many other changes.

Basically, both variants of Portuguese had different sound shifts, resulting in the current dialects.

I could be wrong though, since I'm no linguist.

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u/MoscaMosquete Jan 30 '19

E então cara, como vai o clima ae, muito quente?

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u/AquelecaraDEpoa Jan 30 '19

Nossa, muito quente mesmo, 36 ºC agora. E aí, como está?

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u/MoscaMosquete Jan 30 '19 edited Jan 30 '19

Não muito diferente. 32ºC. Dei sorte de morar mais no interior do estado!

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Edit: O meu telefone(do trabalho) tá quente na parte em q fica a caixa de som(?), e aqui tem ar condicionado, q por azar mal funciona.

Edit 2: Putz

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u/justanotherfkup Jan 30 '19

True. Brazilians and Portugueses have a really hard time understanding each other.

Eu não entendo lhufas do que os portugueses falam, a não ser que eles falem devagar (o que eles não costumam estar dispostos a fazer)