Articles tagged with: Language
25 pearls of Brazilian humor
Brazil has its share of great aphorisms, those witty, funny, sometimes mean little phrases that prove human nature is not …
Palindromes in Portuguese
Palindromes – words and phrases that can be read the same way in both directions – have fascinated people for …
Tragicomic film translations
“Vertigo”, the Hitchcock masterpiece with James Stuart and Kim Novak, had its title translated as “A Mulher que Viveu Duas Vezes” (The Woman that Lived Twice) in Portugal – a massive, humongous spoiler.
Brazilian tongue twisters
In the Brazilian version of the movie My Fair Lady, when Eliza Doolittle is obliged to recite torturing tongue twisters …
Brazil, Indiana
Jimmy Hoffa, the trade union leader that mysteriously disappeared in the mid-seventies, was born in Brazil – which has less …
The best Brazilian insults
Time for some political incorrectness, folks.
Is there a way of cursing, of insulting someone in Brazil without losing your elegance? …
