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» Mon Aug 29, 2011 5:50 pm

and in my pirate video game the portuguese and spaniards did not get along. imagine hating someone so much that you change some of the words up in you own language just so you can say that you dont speak the same one as them. thats why people in the south talk like they do.......cause they didnt want to sound like yankees........at least that my theory.

i cant to the curvy thing over my n.

Well, the thing is that Brazil has no problem with Spain (I think). In the times of the conquest of America (and well.. much later too), Portuguese people and Spanish people didn't get on well because they were competitors. Portuguese people have been talking their own language for a long time, it is not like if they changed words. They spoke a different language called Gallego-portuguese, that later gave origin to two different languages: Gallego, spoken in Galicia, a region of Spain, and Portuguese, spoken in Portugal. As Portugal colonized Brazil... in Brazil they speak Portuguese.

Oh, and sorry for the off-topic.

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:22 pm

Then they lost most of that territory rather quickly.

Yes, but it was still the remnants of the Western Roman Empire

(as Rome was governed in two halves later in it's reign, i'm referring to the political "Western Roman Empire" not the geographical one)

and in my pirate video game the portuguese and spaniards did not get along. imagine hating someone so much that you change some of the words up in you own language just so you can say that you dont speak the same one as them. thats why people in the south talk like they do.......cause they didnt want to sound like yankees........at least thats my theory.

i cant to the curvy thing over my n.

Rrrrrright, I'm not sure what to make of this post.

I'm not sure if I should laugh or be offended.

Well, the thing is that Brazil has no problem with Spain (I think).

native brazilians didn't follow Spanish political trends, the same way Polynesians didn't follow British trends

And I think thats enough off topic :hehe:

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 7:10 pm

That was just before it basically collapsed, at it's height (other than being in the Roman Empire) it contained Italy, Northern Africa, Modern day Turkey and southern Spain

http://www.travellinkturkey.com/images/byzantine_empire.jpg

Not to forget Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Egypt before Islam came along.

» Mon Aug 29, 2011 10:47 pm

Well, the thing is that Brazil has no problem with Spain (I think). In the times of the conquest of America (and well.. much later too), Portuguese people and Spanish people didn't get on well because they were competitors. Portuguese people have been talking their own language for a long time, it is not like if they changed words. They spoke a different language called Gallego-portuguese, that later gave origin to two different languages: Gallego, spoken in Galicia, a region of Spain, and Portuguese, spoken in Portugal. As Portugal colonized Brazil... in Brazil they speak Portuguese.

Oh, and sorry for the off-topic.

oh ok. i was under the impression that spanish and portuguese were like 90% the same. my spanish teacher travelled there and she said she could understand them. i figured that they changed it out of spite or they needed some super secret code and changed certain words to confuse the spanish. thanks for the info though.

considering that this thread has devolved into historical debates about the european and near east middle ages and the origins of portuguese for the last dozen posts or so. its been OT for awhile now. :laugh: