Paul Castro

Re: Hélia Correia

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A Balada de Praia do Cães

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Vimala Devi

I've fleshed out the article a little with information gathered from checking Worldcat (although the Swedish National Library has one book of hers in Esperanto mis-cataloged as being in Portuguese). Can you provide some sources and cites for the article? --Orange Mike | Talk 14:54, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Personal correspondence is not a reliable source, and is not acceptable for anything you want to add to an article. We need impartial, published third-party sources. (If you are in correspondence with her, give her greetings from a fellow Esperantist.) --Orange Mike | Talk 20:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

I had to remove the poem, as that is a copyright violation. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:12, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

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Dissimilar words between Portuguese and Spanish

Att: User talk:Paul Castro

I would be grateful if you stopped interfering and undoing my entries which have taken a lot of investigation and dedication over many months to put together and are absolutely accurate.

You appear not to understand the scope of this, and I would draw your particular attention to the passage which clearly explains the section:

Dissimilar words[edit] Despite the mostly cognate vocabulary between Spanish and Portuguese, a significant number of common words are entirely different in the two languages (although in some cases, cognates exist but are rare or archaic in one of the two languages). Examples include the following:

And please stop trying to tell me how to use Priberam (which is rather incomplete, as a supposedly reliable source) and particularly trying to "teach me" Portuguese. Words like carreteira or rincao feature in the Portuguese dictionary but are ARCHAIC and not used regularly in Portuguese. Very few Portuguese speakers would know what "rincao" or carreteira actually mean as they are simply NOT USED. The same way "alcaide-mor" or "braga" are ARCHAIC words which for centuries have not been used in the Portuguese everyday language. Words listed on this section like "estrada", "canto" and all the others on this list are recurrent, everyday words, in Portuguese. The idea with this section, is to show that Portuguese and Spanish use a lot of everyday words which are from completely different etymologies. Even if in some cases a common cognate could exist for the same meaning but is not used as the norm.

Finally I actually graduated in Humanities at the Coimbra University (amongst others) so in answer to one of your pointless questions, yes I speak Portuguese in fact more fluently than most people. Do you?

As this is not the first time you have tried to interfere with my Wikipedia contributions, any further action from your end will be deferred as vandalism.

Best regards, (Melroross (talk) 23:35, 5 October 2016 (UTC))

Dear "Paul Castro",

You are welcome to add a new section (or any others to that matter) dedicated to archaic cognates with Spanish. "leira" and countless other words are used in Portuguese every single day "uma leira de milho" for instance means one "raia" in Brazilian Portuguese... hence the name Leiria, meaning an area of "leiras". I have never heard "rincao" or "carreteira" in Portugal, nor Angola or in Mozambique for example, neither have I ever noticed those words in my many visits to Brazil. But I am not a "Brazilian Portuguese" expert. In Portuguese "em um" or "em outro" simply do not exist and you have "num" or "noutro", words like "abacaxi" or "mamao" even though a lot of people would understand their meaning, are in fact imports from Brazil with the correspondent words ananas or papaia. And these are just a few examples as I am sure you will be aware of. In Portuguese the word vaga is much more used than onda in official weather forecasts. To my knowledge the term does not exist in Spanish. While we are at this, why are you so "sensitive" about my pointing out obvious differences between these two languages? Are you an Hispanophile by any chance? I have no prejudice or dislike towards the Spanish, but a border was created and has existed between Portugal and Spain almost 1,000 years ago for reasons more than mere political- the Luso-Gallaecians were very self-aware way before the County of Portucale was formed. So the idea of a unified "Iberia" appears to have never existed in any way. It is a fact that Portuguese as a language/culture has substantially more vocabulary than Spanish, less Arabic influence and has kept more Celtic/pre-Roman fragments and I think (although there is no serious study on that) subsequently absorbed more French influence, maybe because of the House of Aviz and other aspects. And going back to the "Lusocentrism" as opposed to "Brazilianism" these are social, cultural and historical divergences neither you nor I can change... I am sure that in 50 years' time and despite the "acordo ortografico" (which to a large extent I disagree with), Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese will be even more different than they are now. As you well pointed out, European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese are two distinct variations of the same language and maybe Wikipedia should reflect a Portuguese version and a Brazilian Portuguese version like a number of Internet and other media do. Melroross (talk) 17:29, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

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