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ufo on Dec 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: When I first heard the name "Safari"

As someone from Brazil, I wonder what kind of words would sound weird to an English speaker like that. I would have thought that most words would be recognizeable, given that English also has its fair share of Latin words.

debacle on Dec 21, 2012 [–]

Portugese is far enough from Latin that many of the English cognates are not immediately recognizable.

"Sangue bom," for example, is not visually translatable to English.

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