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Re: Last word in a foreign language that you learnt 2

Postby Rí.na.dTeangacha » 2021-03-09, 13:21

Osias wrote:But what about calling an old car a "lata velha'? :hmm:


I think that's just a reference to how the car looks like a rusted old can, rather than implying the car is made of a material called "can".

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Rí.na.dTeangacha wrote:Yes, a tin can is uma lata.

It seems to me that bairro de lata might come from the idea of a slum being akin to a walled neighbourhood, so similarity to feeling like inside a can?


I guess so. I presumed it was on account of all the corrugated iron-roofed houses making it look like it was a neighbourhood made of "can" (or, I suppose I thought "lata" meant a material such as tin that cans used to be made out of). Your explanation makes more sense now though.

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(pt-br) não entender bulufas - to not understand anything (colloquial)
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Re: Last word in a foreign language that you learnt 2

Postby Rí.na.dTeangacha » 2021-03-11, 18:24

(pt-br) bismuto - bismuth
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Postby dEhiN » 2021-03-12, 20:12

(fr) régler to pay, to pay off (debts), to settle

I knew the meaning of régler as to rule, but I didn't know about the use for paying things. The example I saw it in was to pay a bill. I wonder if there's any connotational differences between payer and régler when talking about settling/paying off debts or paying bills? Is one preferred or more commonly used over the other?
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Postby linguoboy » 2021-03-14, 11:38

Some French guy just called me (fr) incollable, which literally means something like “nonsticking” but figuratively is “unable to be caught out [on a certain subject]”. (It’s amazing how far basic Internet research skills will carry you.)
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Postby dEhiN » 2021-03-14, 11:49

linguoboy wrote:(It’s amazing how far basic Internet research skills will carry you.)

It's also amazing how far not making snide comments on an Internet forum dedicated to helping those with a particular field of interest will carry you. It's even further amazing how much not making assumptions about the extent or ability of another's Internet research skills just because that other asks questions that could probably be solved with some googling will endear you to the same Internet forum community both you and the other are part of. Particularly when neither you nor that other keep daily tallies of every single time either asks a question versus researching an answer themselves. If you don't want to answer a question because you deem it "beneath you" since a simple Internet search should return the result, then just ignore the damn question.
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Postby linguoboy » 2021-03-14, 14:24

dEhiN wrote:
linguoboy wrote:(It’s amazing how far basic Internet research skills will carry you.)

It's also amazing how far not making snide comments on an Internet forum dedicated to helping those with a particular field of interest will carry you. It's even further amazing how much not making assumptions about the extent or ability of another's Internet research skills just because that other asks questions that could probably be solved with some googling will endear you to the same Internet forum community both you and the other are part of. Particularly when neither you nor that other keep daily tallies of every single time either asks a question versus researching an answer themselves. If you don't want to answer a question because you deem it "beneath you" since a simple Internet search should return the result, then just ignore the damn question.

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Postby Rí.na.dTeangacha » 2021-03-15, 18:30

(pt-br) marmanjo (heard as marmanjão) - grown man, adult male
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Postby Rí.na.dTeangacha » 2021-03-16, 23:15

(pt-br) uma articulação criminosa - a set-up (as in when framing someone for a crime)
(pt-br) égide - aegis, auspice
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Postby Osias » 2021-03-17, 3:26

Rí.na.dTeangacha wrote:(pt-br) marmanjo (heard as marmanjão) - grown man, adult male

It's kind of depreciative. I can't remember now any use that it wasn't.
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Postby Rí.na.dTeangacha » 2021-03-17, 16:40

Osias wrote:
Rí.na.dTeangacha wrote:(pt-br) marmanjo (heard as marmanjão) - grown man, adult male

It's kind of depreciative. I can't remember now any use that it wasn't.


I'll remember to hold that against my wife then :lol:
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Postby Osias » 2021-03-17, 23:44

I expect it often being used together with the words 'já' and 'baita': 'você já é um marmanjão', 'um baita marmanjo desses', 'já é um baita marmanjão', etc.
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Postby Rí.na.dTeangacha » 2021-03-18, 1:14

Osias wrote:I expect it often being used together with the words 'já' and 'baita': 'você já é um marmanjão', 'um baita marmanjo desses', 'já é um baita marmanjão', etc.


Haha, acertou na mosca! É bem "já é um baita marmanjão!' que ela falou!
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Postby linguoboy » 2021-03-20, 19:46

(is) túristagos

Literally, "tourist eruption". This is how the current eruption of Fagradalsfjall is being described, because it's picturesque, easily visible from Reykjavík, and not posing any significant threats to infrastructure or transportation. An Icelandic acquaintance told me that if you wanted to be "more Icelandic", you could call it a ferðamannagos. (Both terms seem to have been used in Icelandic media.)
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Re: Last word in a foreign language that you learnt 2

Postby Yasna » 2021-03-25, 5:11

(fa) مترسک (matarsak) - scarecrow
(fa) دستبند (dastband) - bracelet
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Postby Yasna » 2021-03-30, 18:23

(fa) نکته (nokteh) - note
(fa) شورای شهر (shourA-ie shahr) - city council
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Re: Last word in a foreign language that you learnt 2

Postby vijayjohn » 2021-03-30, 19:24

Yasna wrote:(fa) نکته (nokteh) - note

I think 'point' might be a more accurate translation.

Urdu (ur) پیٹی / Hindi (hi) पेटी [peˈʈi] - box (I know this word in Malayalam (plus perhaps a few other Dravidian languages) and Marathi but didn't know Hindi had it, too)
Gujarati (gu) પેટી - box (same story here, roughly same pronunciation)
Mandarin Chinese (zh) 心甘情愿 xīngānqíngyuàn - (most) willing, amenable, agreeable (relearning this one)
Mandarin Chinese (zh) 数目 shùmù - amount

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Re: Last word in a foreign language that you learnt 2

Postby Dormouse559 » 2021-04-03, 6:44

(fr) prendre v - to set, to gel, to solidify

I already know prendre (I'd worry if I didn't), but it has so many specialized meanings, too. I heard this usage on "Le Meilleur Pâtissier", the French version of "The Great British Bake Off", on which contestants regularly try to get mousses and such to set.
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Postby vijayjohn » 2021-04-05, 21:44

Turkish (tr) yenilmek - to be defeated

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Re: Last word in a foreign language that you learnt 2

Postby Rí.na.dTeangacha » 2021-04-07, 11:32

(pt-br) implicar com alguém - (lit. "to imply with someone") to irritate someone
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Re: Last word in a foreign language that you learnt 2

Postby Osias » 2021-04-07, 15:06

I think that's more like trolling, to annoy intentionally. You can irritate someone without intention.
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