« previous next »
Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese  (Read 2390 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58722
  • Reputation: +3102/-173
Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« on: October 07, 2010, 01:31:53 PM »
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x9519063

Oh my.

Quote
Redstone  (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-05-10 06:31 PM
CHIEF S ITTING BULL, THE BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
Original message

So how come it's "portuguese" (with two Us), but "Portugal" (with only one U)?

I've never understood that.

(Just the kind of useless thing a manic brain like mine seizes on now and again.)

Quote
BurtWorm  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-05-10 06:34 PM
THE BUTT PARASITE PRIMITIVE
Response to Original message

1. It signifies that the G is hard, which would be less clear without the u.   

The spelling is borrowed from Portuguese.

Quote
Redstone  (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-05-10 06:35 PM
CHIEF S ITTING BULL, THE BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #1

2. It signifies that the **what** is hard? The second U?

Quote
BurtWorm  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-05-10 06:39 PM
THE BUTT PARASITE PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #2

3. G 

Sorry. Typing this on an iPhone. I repeat, that the g is hard.

Quote
Redstone  (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-05-10 06:42 PM
CHIEF S ITTING BULL, THE BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #3

4. Aha. Thank you. I had not known that about that language.

Quote
Xipe Totec  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-05-10 07:16 PM
Response to Reply #4
 
7. G is soft before a, o, u, but hard before e, i.

Just as in Spanish, a 'u' is inserted before e, or i, to make them soft but then the 'u' becomes silent.

If the 'u' is to be sounded, it is marked with a dieresis.

That is why words like güero (blondie) have the umlaut or dieresis.

Quote
Tuesday Afternoon  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-05-10 07:33 PM
Response to Reply #7
 
8. How then, would one pronounce Portugual ...? 

what does that second "u" do in this case?

Quote
Xipe Totec  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-05-10 07:39 PM
Response to Reply #8
 
9. Yes, the second 'u' would be sounded in that case cacophonically.

Quote
Tuesday Afternoon  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-05-10 07:49 PM
Response to Reply #9
 
12. like this... 

Port-u-gu-al

Quote
Xipe Totec  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-05-10 07:51 PM
Response to Reply #12
 
15. Exactly!

You have it right.

Quote
Tuesday Afternoon  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-05-10 07:58 PM
Response to Reply #15
 
16. ok, thanks. Wanted to make sure I understood.

Quote
petronius  (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-05-10 07:43 PM
Response to Reply #7
 
10. Did you mean that the other way around? Portuguese and guero are pronounced with the hard 'g', but without the 'u' it would be soft? If 'g' is hard before 'e', why is the 'u' needed?

Quote
Xipe Totec  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-05-10 07:46 PM
Response to Reply #10
 
11. No, I have it right

Portugese would be pronounced as if spelt Portukhese. Guttural, half way between an x and hacking a loogie.

Quote
petronius  (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-05-10 08:08 PM
Response to Reply #11
 
17. Oh, I guess a hard g is harder than I thought. I think of hard g as 'guh', and soft g as 'jeh'. So the guh-like sound in Portuguese is actually a soft g?

Quote
Xipe Totec  (1000+ posts)        Tue Oct-05-10 08:12 PM
Response to Reply #17
 
18. Yes. The hard G is closer to H as in Herbert, Soft G is like G in Geese

Quote
petronius  (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-05-10 08:31 PM
Response to Reply #18
 
19. Interesting, I've learned a new thing today

Thanks!

Quote
Bucky  (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-05-10 09:28 PM
Response to Reply #7
 
20. Is that why it's called the G-spot? Because it's hard next to U, but soft next to I?

After which Chief S itting Bull essays to explain Finnish, and tries to learn Korean.
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

Offline JohnnyReb

  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 32063
  • Reputation: +1998/-134
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2010, 01:45:24 PM »
Someone said "hard" and all the gay dudes came running to help out.
Logged
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

"America is like a healthy body and its resistance is threefold: its patriotism, its morality, and its spiritual life. If we can undermine these three areas, America will collapse from within."  Stalin

Offline AllosaursRus

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11672
  • Reputation: +424/-293
  • Skip Tracing by Contract Only!
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2010, 01:52:51 PM »
What a complete waste of band width!
Logged
I'm the guy your mother warned you about!
 

Offline njpines

  • It's a Hoagie not a
  • In Memoriam
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3890
  • Reputation: +590/-31
  • Hi, I'm Sue!
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #3 on: October 07, 2010, 02:01:55 PM »
Isn't Port-u-gal (with the extra hard G) where Twitboy -- er, I mean Twixvoy -- defected?
Logged
Piney Power!!

Grow your own dope -- plant a Democrat!

"We will preserve for our children (America), the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."  -- Ronald Reagan.

"Listen, strange women lyin' in ponds distributin' swords is no basis for a system of government. You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you." -- Quest for the Holy Grail

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58722
  • Reputation: +3102/-173
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #4 on: October 07, 2010, 02:09:49 PM »
Quote from: AllosaursRus on October 07, 2010, 01:52:51 PM
What a complete waste of band width!

Well, if one wishes to see wasted brain waves, look at Chief S itting Bull again:

Quote
mcollins  (301 posts)  Tue Oct-05-10 06:52 PM
Response to Original message

5. Why do people misspell Finland all the time?
   
Sue me.

Quote
Redstone  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-05-10 07:06 PM
CHIEF S ITTING BULL, THE BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #5

6. Do they? I did not know. How to they missspell it? "Finnland?" My doctor's last name is "Hautaniemi," whic I guessed to be North African, but turns out to be Finnish. I'd never have guessed it, given the absense of two Ks or two Ps together.

Geezuz, Chief S itting Bull lacks something in the upstairs department.

Quote
KamaAina  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Tue Oct-05-10 07:50 PM
Response to Reply #6

14. It's a groaner pun
   
The name of Finland in Finnish, as shown on their hockey uniforms for instance, is "Suomi".
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

Offline thundley4

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 40571
  • Reputation: +2224/-127
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #5 on: October 07, 2010, 02:23:25 PM »
Quote
Redstone  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-05-10 07:06 PM
CHIEF S ITTING BULL, THE BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #5

6. Do they? I did not know. How to they missspell it? "Finnland?" My doctor's last name is "Hautaniemi," whic I guessed to be North African, but turns out to be Finnish. I'd never have guessed it, given the absense of two Ks or two Ps together.

I wonder how DO they misspell it?
Logged

Offline Karin

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 17752
  • Reputation: +1895/-81
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #6 on: October 07, 2010, 02:56:36 PM »
GET A ****ING JOB. 
Logged

Offline AllosaursRus

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11672
  • Reputation: +424/-293
  • Skip Tracing by Contract Only!
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #7 on: October 07, 2010, 03:31:54 PM »
Quote from: Karin on October 07, 2010, 02:56:36 PM
GET A ****ING JOB. 

What capitalist in his right mind would????????????
Logged
I'm the guy your mother warned you about!
 

Offline DumbAss Tanker

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 28493
  • Reputation: +1710/-151
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #8 on: October 07, 2010, 03:35:00 PM »
If this means they're going to move to Brazil, I'm all for it.
Logged
Go and tell the Spartans, O traveler passing by
That here, obedient to their law, we lie.

Anything worth shooting once is worth shooting at least twice.

Offline franksolich

  • Scourge of the Primitives
  • Global Moderator
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 58722
  • Reputation: +3102/-173
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #9 on: October 07, 2010, 03:38:04 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on October 07, 2010, 03:35:00 PM
If this means they're going to move to Brazil, I'm all for it.

Don't you and I both wish.....
Logged
apres moi, le deluge

Milo Yiannopoulos "It has been obvious since 2016 that Trump carries an anointing of some kind. My American friends, are you so blind to reason, and deaf to Heaven? Can he do all this, and cannot get a crown? This man is your King. Coronate him, and watch every devil shriek, and every demon howl."

Offline AllosaursRus

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11672
  • Reputation: +424/-293
  • Skip Tracing by Contract Only!
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #10 on: October 07, 2010, 03:44:10 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on October 07, 2010, 03:38:04 PM
Don't you and I both wish.....

As long as the boat sinks on the way! I wouldn't wish these pukes on my worst enemy! Brazil has enough problems without addin' these asshats into the mix!
Logged
I'm the guy your mother warned you about!
 

Offline Boudicca

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5162
  • Reputation: +413/-61
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #11 on: October 07, 2010, 09:57:54 PM »
Bucky  (1000+ posts)      Tue Oct-05-10 09:28 PM
Response to Reply #7
 
20. Is that why it's called the G-spot? Because it's hard next to U, but soft next to I?

Bet your significant other thinks you're an inept neophyte in bed. ::)
Logged
Sneaking into a country doesn't make you an immigrant any
more than breaking into someone's house makes you part of the family.
(Poster bolky from thehill.com blog discussion)

Offline BattleHymn

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 8758
  • Reputation: +981/-63
  • Not right, but not left, either.
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #12 on: October 07, 2010, 10:06:14 PM »
Quote
Redstone  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-05-10 07:06 PM
CHIEF S ITTING BULL, THE BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #5

6. Do they? I did not know. How to they missspell it? "Finnland?" My doctor's last name is "Hautaniemi," whic I guessed to be North African, but turns out to be Finnish. I'd never have guessed it, given the absense of two Ks or two Ps together.


You missed one.  :-)
Logged

Offline Odin's Hand

  • is your new god!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5486
  • Reputation: +366/-25
  • Quarters Champion
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #13 on: October 07, 2010, 10:16:06 PM »
Between Atman in Thailand and Redstone in Brazil, those young boys will have nowhere to hide.  :censored:
Logged
"Hell is full of good wishes and desires"~St. Bernhard of Clairvaux

"Brave men are found where brave men are honored."~Aristotle

"Generally speaking, the "Way of the Warrior" is resolute acceptance of death."~ Miyamoto Musashi

Offline AllosaursRus

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 11672
  • Reputation: +424/-293
  • Skip Tracing by Contract Only!
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #14 on: October 07, 2010, 10:34:14 PM »
Quote from: Odin's Hand on October 07, 2010, 10:16:06 PM
Between Atman in Thailand and Redstone in Brazil, those young boys will have nowhere to hide.  :censored:

They're already lost in Uranus!!!
Logged
I'm the guy your mother warned you about!
 

Offline PatriotGame

  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 4285
  • Reputation: +227/-96
  • Look at my BIG feet! Woof!
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #15 on: October 07, 2010, 10:47:01 PM »
Quote
Redstone  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-05-10 07:06 PM
CHIEF S ITTING BULL, THE BIRD-SMACKING STONED RED-FACED PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #5

6. Do they? I did not know. How to they missspell it? "Finnland?" My doctor's last name is "Hautaniemi," whic I guessed to be North African, but turns out to be Finnish. I'd never have guessed it, given the absense of two Ks or two Ps together.
My friend's name is Bob - I spell AND pronounce it backwards...he has no idea...
Logged
           ►☼Liberals Are THE Root of ALL Evil!☼◄

Offline Odin's Hand

  • is your new god!
  • Hero Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 5486
  • Reputation: +366/-25
  • Quarters Champion
Re: Chief S itting Bull, other primitives, trying to learn Portuguese
« Reply #16 on: October 07, 2010, 10:51:56 PM »
Logged
"Hell is full of good wishes and desires"~St. Bernhard of Clairvaux

"Brave men are found where brave men are honored."~Aristotle

"Generally speaking, the "Way of the Warrior" is resolute acceptance of death."~ Miyamoto Musashi
Pages: [1]   Go Up
« previous next »