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Doh! Moment: Watching Brazilian movie tonight.....

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mr grits

and had no idea that Portuguese is not even a third cousin to Spanish. I would hear an occasional familiar inflection but that was it.

How did two people in such proximity retain such strong language differences? Amazing.

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Actually, if you read the languages side-by-side, they are VERY similar. But Spanish, as spoken in - tinear 08:43:46 10/03/11 (2)
Spain, has (in many provinces) a very strange quality: there is a pronounced lisp. It is because, at one time, a king of Spain had a speech impediment and, not to make him feel unusual, the court adopted a lisp. Since the lowers copied everything of the uppers, it spread to the general population.
That said, since you were watching a Brazilian film, and not a Portuguese one, you would have heard a very different sounding language than that of the original country, Portugal. The difference is similar to the that between Cockney and American English.
- Tin, after watching quite a bit of Spanish film I could not hear.... - mr grits 11:35:38 10/03/11 (1)
  any words resembling Espana Spanish, Mexican, or Argentine. It was strange. I thought it would have been nearly identical. I guess that's a mistake on my part because of their seemingly similar cultures.
  - It takes a trained ear. Once you master one, the other is much easier than French or Italian, - tinear 12:15:40 10/03/11 (0)
    though those are easier to learn once you have one Latin language.
    Remember "Train Spotting?" That, I'm told, was "English," though I couldn't understand very much, at all....
RE: Duh ... - Jeff Starrs 04:36:21 10/03/11 (1)
...USA & Mexico?
Weird, huh?
- Double D'oh! France/Germany ^ - Road Warrior 07:19:17 10/03/11 (0)
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