Wednesday 22 June 2016

paddysnuffles: I wonder who was the first person to be like “We should refer to human children as...

paddysnuffles:

I wonder who was the first person to be like “We should refer to human children as ‘baby goats’.”

I wonder if it maybe started for a similar reason to why Brazilian moms call their kids their “little calf” (bezerrinho).

The mindset behind “little calf” being that the sound children make when calling for their mom (and the tone they do it in) sounds just like a calf calling for its mother (”Mããããããe…”)

Wednesday 8 June 2016

Being both Lusophone and Anglophone means...

paddysnuffles:

…Always way overdoing the number of K’s when you lol on your posts/comments in Portuguese because you’re paranoid Anglophones will see “kkk” or “KKK” and get the wrong idea.


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