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Hello, Mohamed.
A few tips you could take to ensure people will understand you just want to learn these expressions from a linguistic POV are:
1. Don't mention the word/expression in the title of the post; that will only bring unwanted attention from purists and conservatives who'll just downgrade you without adding anything to the discussion;
2. Try a trustworthy online dictionary before you ask here; even official dictionaries have curse words/expletives in their databases nowadays, so that's always the best place to start. It also fosters your independence when learning a language - learning to figure things out for yourself and asking only when other people's input might be important (like understand how to use the word in context);
3. Make sure the title of your post explains that the word might be a potential expletive/curse word (if you don't know, place a warning anyways because some people might be too young to read it);
4. Carefully and politely explain in your comments why you want to learn the word; it helps if you give people some context as to where you found the word, that way they might be tempted to come up with a translation instead of just thinking you were being rude on purpose;
5. Don't take the downvotes personally; it's much easier to like/dislike something than to comment constructively on it, so make sure you focus on the comments you receive and the constructive feedback people give you.
Best of luck with your studies!
0 votedAugust 20, 20170A Canoa
(PT-PT)
Hoje de manhã, eu e a minha filha fomos até à cidade de Reading. O rio lá não éestá sob influência da maré* e por isso a água é menos assustadora (e mais limpa!) do que aqui em Londres. Existe** um centro desportivo que dá para o rio***. Eu e a Oli alugámos uma canoa e demos um passeio ao longo do Rrio****. Ela sentou-se emna [parte da] frente da canoa, adiante de mim*****. Entrámos no barco com cuidado porque não queremos queríamos cair na aquaágua [perante o/em frente do] treinador porque teríamos estado ficado [mesmo/bastante/muito] envergonhados. Adorámos a experiência. Foi divertida e relaxante. O sol até conseguiu de brilhar as às vezes.Notes:
- I'm actually a native European Portuguese (PT-PT) speaker, unlike the other people who've corrected you so far; no offence, but most Brazilians aren't aware of the differences in vocabulary and sentence structure in European Portuguese vs. BP (the issue with <a href="https://theepexperience.wordpress.com/2016/10/19/ep-word-of-the-week-68-amamos/" style="font-weight: bold;">the preterite 1st person plural of verbs whose infinitive ends in -ar having an accent</a> is one of them), please take their corrections with a grain of salt.
- Corrections of errors are in yellow (together with strikethrough if necessary); spelling/capitalization mistakes are in blue. Extra options are in brackets.
- Your Portuguese is quite good! You've used features that are specific of EP, so you're on the good track; I've pointed them in green for you just to make sure you didn't think they were wrong.
* "das marés" (in the plural ) would also be ok
** Another option, "Há" (from the verb haver, it's more common because it's shorter)
*** Other ways of saying that would be "que fica perto do rio" (close to), "[à/na] beira do rio" (by the riverside); "à beira-rio" (same). Yours is perfectly acceptable (and quite refined), so congrats!
**** Unless you specify which river, the noun isn't capitalized. In PT, we call the Thames "o Rio Tamisa", or "o Tamisa" for short.
***** "em frente de" implies being in front of, so you'd have to be outside the canoe to say it like that; I would also use "à minha frente" instead of "adiante de mim", which is ok but more formal.
I have a PT-PT blog; if you're interested, you can follow me at <a href="https://theepexperience.wordpress.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">The EP Experience</a>! I write a few articles with words specific to Portuguese and European Portuguese grammar!
Best of luck with your studies!
0 votedAugust 20, 20171- Моят живот Здравейте всички! Казвам се Луиш (Luís от португалски) и португалец съм. Аз съм на 25 години и живея в Централна Португалия, близо до Лисабон. Имам четери български приатели; те са от rазлични части на България - Варна, Русе, Пловдив и Асеновград; надявам се скоро да посетя България.August 8, 201732
O Ano Novo no em Berlim.
De nossa janela no oitavo chão [andar/piso], vimos dois duas pessoas na rua lutando com armas falsas. Ambas correram e então pararam. Uma atirou fogos de artifício até à outra através da rua. Ouvimos um som alto. E depois, outra pessoa atirou um fogo também. Mas, tinha outras fora, não somente eles para baixo [?]. Podíamos ouvir centenas de fogos de artifícios e tiros falsos [em/por] todo o lado de Berlim. Era louco. Essa loucura nos inspirou a sair para divertir-nos essa noite. Foi o Ano Novo em Berlim! Então saímos para ao Portão de Brandemburgo onde atirariam mais fogos de artifícios.I didn't correct everything, and one of the sentences was incomprehensible to me (sorry), but these were just the most obvious mistakes. Maybe someone else will find the time to rework the sentences better.
Continuação de bons estudos!
0 votedAugust 8, 20170Technically the script was trying to do an approximation of African American Vernacular English (the AmEnglish varieties spoken by urban working class and middle class African Americans in the US); in this context "you is" is supposed to be a marker of the differences between spoken English between different classes, but "You is" isn't even the best representation of AAVE (which generally tends to lose "to be" in the present simple altogether - "You kind, you smart, you important").
Just to clarify, this is a vernacular - it's the way a group of people speak on their day-to-day lives, not Standard English grammar.
You can read more about this particular sentence in the context of The Help (and the politics of using dialects in such a charged way) here: http://dialectblog.com/2012/11/14/you-is-smart-dialect-gripes-about-the-help/
0 votedAugust 8, 20170- This is a satire written with filigree[-like] precision about people from all walks of life and each [and every one] of us. NOTES: - I'm personally not aware of "filigree" being used on its own as an attributive noun, but it's a possibility; adding -like helps explain the connection, but is in no way necessary. - I'm not exactly sure why you felt the need to add "and each of us" after "people from all walks of life", since the latter is already so self-explanatory. If you want to add to the idea, maybe add a comma instead of the conjunction; that helps create the time that both ideas mean the same (that is, people from all walks of life are just like each and every one of us individually).0 votedAugust 7, 20171
