Just returned from Brazil last Thursday. Saw some of that while there.
The caipirinha was good.
$710.96... The price of freedom.
Posted on 07/17/2004 1:11:53 PM PDT by Willie Green
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I was in Woodland Hills, Ca with friends at a Dennys one evening and a couple of guys came in wanting to order and the waitress couldn't understand them, so she called a half-dozen Mexicans out from the kitchen and a few other diners got up and went over to see if they could translate; finally the guys ordered by pointing at the pictures. They only spoke Potugese.
Portugese.
I'd say something more here but... I... just... gotta... SAMBA!
I would rather "jiggle"
Orkut? Never heard of it. Third world 'net users are welcome to lefty_google.
The other Romantic languages are not terribly close to Latin ~
I once got myself out of a bind with an Austrian border policeman who didn't know English by showing him I could understand a bit of Latin ~ and lo and behold, he knew Romanisch! (This was 35 years ago). I also purchased some gasoline in Luxembourg a couple of years later at a place where the locals spoke only Dutch and a residual Gallo ~ probably why they were running a gas station rather than working at real jobs.
Odds are there are some quite entertaining discussion threads in Orkut whether they are in English or Portuguese. Folks with some facility in Latin should try working their way through some of them (with a dictionary at the ready of course).
According to Amazon jungle legend, the first guarana-berry bush sprouted on the spot where a lightning bolt struck a pair of star-crossed lovers from rival Indian tribes. While Coke has countered with two guarana brands of its own, patriotic Brazilian consumers have been less than rapturous about gringo guaranas. Coke's fiercest Brazilian rival, a guarana bottler called Cia. Antartica, which controls one-quarter of the market for the Amazon elixir, has been ridiculing the soft-drink giant on TV ads that, in effect, accuse Coke of guarana envy. Now, Antartica says it's merging with Brazil's No. 2 guarana maker, a giant beverage firm called Cia. Cervejaria Brahma SA, to form a juggernaut that will give Coke even bigger headaches.
Antartica's current ad campaign in Brazil is less about making love than making war - with Coke. In one television commercial, an Antarctica pitchman stands before a rain-forest guarana plantation and directs a pointed question towards viewers: "Now ask Coca-Cola to show you the Coke tree." That ad came in retaliation for a Coke spot in which taste tests showed Brazilians preferring Kuat. Unfortunately for Coke, Kuat fared better against the competition in the ad than it has been doing at checkout counters [perhaps Coke has a new product in line called Quat, after the hallucinogenic plant leaf widely consumed in North Africa and the Middle East -Ed].
And Coke is now facing a new threat from mom-and-pop beverage producers taking advantage of cheap, nonreturnable bottles - and Brazil's ancient love affair with guarana. Not long ago, Maria Leticia Sanchez de Oliveira put some new life in a failing family bottling company in central Brazil by launching a guarana called Ginga, which means "jiggle." "We wanted a name that represented Brazil," she says. "We weren't thinking about sex. But if people are thinking about that when they buy Ginga, that's fine."
But somehow, the cultural characteristics do not transfer to Brazil on the Internet. It is a spam cesspool of bulletprooof web hosts and mass mail for hire places.
Under fourteen hours a month?? They sure aren't Freepers.
Perhaps they really meant 13 hr 51 min per day.
First you let the Brazillians take over Orkut, now you're exposing your Samba shares to them?!?
Slightly more serious, this story triggers my oh-big-deal reflex. Some people post in a language other than English on a glorified message board on the world wide web and other people get bent out of shape over it. Bleh. They can go start their own message board and delete any posts they don't like.
Just returned from Brazil last Thursday. Saw some of that while there.
The caipirinha was good.
$710.96... The price of freedom.
Guarana is good stuff.
Yes. It's a tactic that's been finely honed on FR's immigration threads for years.
Makes me wonder how many globalist neocons are actually Brazilian infiltrators.
Al Gore set up the internet for multiple languages?
What incredible foresight!
I'm surprised there isn't an orkut site in English coordinating the 'invasion' of Portuguese sites in English. No matter what they're talking about in Portuguese, show up with a coupla English friends and start a conversation about something random. Then call them Nazis when they object.
hehehehe you got that right
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