Posted on 10/12/2025 12:59:55 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
It's the one issue that sharply divides Portuguese society. Much more divisive than political, religious, or class differences. In fact, you could say that his issue divides Portugal into two mutually exclusive and irreconcilable groups.
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PING!
You are not the first person to notice the (slight) similarity. But the two words are not related. “Obrigado” is a a past participle of the verb that through another chain leads to English “obliged.” “Arigato” or a form thereof is apparently found in some 8th century document, well before contact with the Portuguese.
Arigato comes from 有り難し which is first seen in 8th century old Japanese. Obrigado also predates the 1500s. It must have been quite stunning for Japanese and Portuguese to hear two very dissimilar languages have similar words.
For one of your journeys, make a trip to Finland some day and report back to us. I’ve never forgotten a particular video from years ago that showed how people in Finland treated strangers - and perhaps everyone.. Very cold weather and cold shoulder to EVERYONE.. This is a good example so I guess the video I remember wasn’t far off.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8d54KE01wH0
Where I grew up, there were a lot of Finnish people and never a problem - only thing that I recall when hearing the “oldsters” discuss them were the “steam baths” they built on their farms. Several of their kids were in school and as normal as any of us were - LOL!
So, what issue divides them?
Finns are a special case…. They’re not really Scandies like the Swedes / Danes / Norwegians nor are they Slavs. and Finnish is actually related to modern Turkish.
They do make some very nice firearms too.
SO WHAT IS THE ISSUE??????
That makes since because sometime in the past all Finnish male DNA was obliterated by an invasion.
And I also believe that Finnish is part of the same language group that includes Hungarian.
“...Finnish is actually related to modern Turkish.”
And Hungarian. Finno-Urgic. And Finns and Estonian speak basically the same language - a few different words and pronunciations, kind of like a New Jerseyan vs. an Alabaman.
The best description of Finns I’ve ever heard was from a Swede. He said that when Finns talk to you they look at their shoes. If their abnormally outgoing, they look at your shoes.
It must have been quite stunning for Japanese and Portuguese to hear two very dissimilar languages have similar words.
When the Portuguese first encountered Hindus along the east coast of Africa, they thought they had found followers of Prester John, as when the Portuguese held up a Cross and said, “Cristo! Cristo!” the Hindus responded, “Krishna! Krishna”
The confusion didn’t last long...
Hahaha - yeah, what he said
If I told you, you wouldn't believe me.
So UNBELIEVABLE that if I told you, you wouldn't believe me which is why I let the Portuguese people in the video reveal it.
I watched long enough to hear them talking about beer.
Maybe its a beer/wine squabble.
Maybe someone will volunteer to watch it further.
I don’t watch videos unless I just absolutely have to. That is my policy because most videos are poorly made, narrated by morons, and take forever to get to the point.
Good for you. Except if you go to Portugal and say the wrong thing about a certain topic you could risk getting stoned to death. Don't worry you can say anything you want in Portugal about politics or religion and pretty much anything else EXCEPT for this subject. Oh, and if you happen to fall in love with a Portuguese woman or man and you have the "wrong" (in their view) opinion on this topic you will be IMMEDIATELY dumped.
Your bonanza knowledge would be for curiosity sake. I have mountains of knowledge yet to explore related to much more interesting topics. Thanks for playing.
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