Brasil -Portugal

A fantastic game, by now only fantasied, but, hopefully, real, soon.
Un juego fantástico, por ahora sólo fnataseado, mas, esperanzadamente, real, pronto.

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[Mentidero]

Wow! We've a languaje topic here! I'll read it with great enthusiasm....

[flusshboy]

the biggest reklam in the world

[gualataco1982]

So tell me what do you think?? In fact I like Portugal, in my country Ecuador, in the last World Cup many people wanted Portugal to win the World Cup intead of Italy, France, or Germany (we had no latin-american teams in the semifainals) because in latin America we allways preffer that people from the Ibeian Peninsula among other europeans that's for sure. So what I say is that people here and other spanish speaking countries consider Brazil and Portugal beatiful people and very related to us.

[gualataco1982]

In Ibero-America, we don't neeed translators and iterpreters to communicate among us. We must we proud to speak very similar languages and be culturally very related among us, because the luso and hispanic cultural can be taken as one ( and in fact many people consider us as a whole culture) In Brazil it took me a week to understand brazilian almost completely. I guess between us we just have to learn about 1.000 words and that may differ and our communication would be excellent.

[gualataco1982]

What I say is we must unite our countries. In fact, portuguese speakers can be more cultural and lingustically ralated to spanish speaker than any other ethnic group in the world. In fact many people (anglos, nothern europeans, asians, chinese, etc) consider spanish speakers and portuguese speakers as a whole inmense community. In fact I know portuguese, and the look phisically and culturally very similar to us.

[MASGSM]

So the language of the biggest empire of all times definitely appear to have the lead for now. Well, only time will tell..

[MASGSM]

But despite that and the fact that today Castilian has more native speakers than English, it's not like the second one which is during the present time a dominant global language and has enormous growth potential in Asia, not only in India, where it has official status, but also in China, if not as a native one, at least as a"linguae francae"(Standard Mandarin will eventually grow there too and Hindi in India for that matter).

[MASGSM]

Furthermore, I never said that the Castilian language does not have a lot of growth potential in the so called "New World" particularly in the United States of America where English is only the National Language in practice just like the so called "Spanish language" in Mexico(as you know the official language is not mentioned in the U.S. Constitution nor in Mexico's).

[MASGSM]

Like I said before, by the time Brazil becomes a economic and, who knows, even a cultural power, Portuguese language will be without a doubt a lot more studied as a second language than it is today, especially by the speakers of related languages such as Castilian and in the Community of Portuguese Language Countries member's neighbour states.

[MASGSM]

What I said was that despite the fact that the Lusophone community is for now a poor and illiterate one, it's language still has, to say the least, a future and the economic rise of Brazil will for a fact do wonders for it in the coming decades, and no, i don't believe Brazilians will favour a foreign language over their own, one that is part of their culture and the history of their country.