06 agosto 2012

Português na lógica "Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z"

Portuguese is essentially bad Spanish, mumbled.
--Eugene Holman
Portuguese is essentially Spanish spoken through ill-fitting dentures.
--Not Roger Mills
Portuguese is essentially the language spoken by Gallegos who decided to have their own independent country.
--Ivan C. Amaya
Portuguese is essentially Spanish while eating a hot potato.
--Mike Taylor
Ergo Portuguese is essentially Danish posing as a Romance language.
--Benct Philip Jonsson
Portuguese is essentially Spanish spoken while on Viagra™.
--Danny Wier
Brazilian is essentially Latin without consonants.
--Paulo Rónai (via Luís Henrique)
Portuguese is essentially Brazilian without vowels.
--Luís Henrique
Portuguese is essentially Spanish as spoken by a Russian.
--Peter Clark
Azorean Portuguese is essentially your Mainland Portuguese as spoken with puckered lips.
--ilvi
Portuguese is nothing more than Spanish as spoken by people who wannabe French.
--Javier de la Rosa
Gallego is essentially Portuguese as suppressed by Francisco Franco (a wannabe Castilian).
--Javier de la Rosa
Brazilian is essentially Spanish spoken by Portuguese hot babes with rhythm.
--Javier de la Rosa
Brazilian is essentially a conlang created by people who wanted to have sex all the time, but still be able to talk about everyday things.
--alleszermalmer
Portuguese and Galician are hayseed dialects of Spanish.
--Brian
They say if you're speaking bad Spanish, you're speaking Portuguese but I didn't find that to be true!
--Brian
Portuguese is Spanish spoken with a French accent. (Not really true since the nasals in Portuguese are different than those in French.)
--Brian
Portuguese is essentially a kind of contact language formed from Spanish and... more Spanish!
--Maria
To a Galician speaker, Portuguese sounds like a kind of Galician with most vowels left out, whereas to a Portuguese speaker Galician may sometimes sound like Portuguese with a Spanish accent.
--Anonymous
Portuguese is Spanish spoken by a drunken Frenchman.
--vacapinta
Portuguese (Brazilian) is Spanish without bones.
--Carlos Quevedo
To a Galician speaker, Portuguese sounds like a kind of Galician with most vowels left out, whereas to a Portuguese speaker Galician may sometimes sound like Portuguese with a Spanish accent.
--John Cowan
Portuguese is essentially bad Latin that Spaniards cannot understand.
--Humberto Ribeiro
Portuguese is Italian spoken by someone on sedatives.
--Ken Westmoreland
Portuguese is essentially like a kind of Galician with most vowels left out.
--Anonymous Wikipedian
Contrariwise, Galician is essentially Portuguese with a Spanish accent.
--Anonymous Wikipedian
Portuguese is essentially hard core Galician.
--Ivan C. Amaya
Brazilian is essentially Portuguese with bossa rhythm.
--Ivan C. Amaya
Portuguese is essentially Spanish that's ashamed of its heritage, so it passes itself off as a Slavic language.
--Bill Van
Portuguese is essentially a dialect of Spanish that managed to score an army and a navy.
--Leonardo Boiko
Portuguese is essentially heavily mutated vulgar soldier's Latin, as spoken by prescriptive purists obsessed with "preserving the correct language".
--Leonardo Boiko
Portuguese is essentially Spanish.
--Leonardo Boiko
Brazilian Portuguese is essentially Spanish.
--Sili
Portuguese is essentially Spanish that's been left out in the rain all night.
--Paul Clarke
 in Essentialist Explanations