Comments on: Ubiquity in Portuguese http://mitcho.com/blog/link/ubiquity-in-portuguese/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:57:24 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Paulo Sargaço http://mitcho.com/blog/link/ubiquity-in-portuguese/comment-page-1/#comment-853 Paulo Sargaço Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:17:36 +0000 http://mitcho.com/blog/?p=1547#comment-853 <p>And the other thing is that "me dê" is only used in Brasil. Nobody in Portugal, and I suspect, Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde and so on, would find that formulation very intuitive. Disclaimer: I haven't been following the "overlord verbs proposal" discussion, so I may be missing something.</p> And the other thing is that "me dê" is only used in Brasil. Nobody in Portugal, and I suspect, Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde and so on, would find that formulation very intuitive. Disclaimer: I haven't been following the "overlord verbs proposal" discussion, so I may be missing something.

]]> By: Asrail http://mitcho.com/blog/link/ubiquity-in-portuguese/comment-page-1/#comment-789 Asrail Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:01:42 +0000 http://mitcho.com/blog/?p=1547#comment-789 <p>Well... first of all, "me dê" would translate literally to "give me", instead of "me give". But there is something worse.</p> <p>The main point of the post is that the use of the equivalent of the construct "map of San Francisco" would be far better than "map San Francisco". The "give me" prefix would be optional, just like "map San Francisco [for me]".</p> <p>In addition to this, me and most friends would use: pt: "[Eu quero] mapear São Francisco" en: "[I want] to map San Francisco"</p> <p>that's not such an esoteric construct her, even though the non-verb construct is common.</p> Well… first of all, "me dê" would translate literally to "give me", instead of "me give". But there is something worse.

The main point of the post is that the use of the equivalent of the construct "map of San Francisco" would be far better than "map San Francisco". The "give me" prefix would be optional, just like "map San Francisco [for me]".

In addition to this, me and most friends would use: pt: "[Eu quero] mapear São Francisco" en: "[I want] to map San Francisco"

that's not such an esoteric construct her, even though the non-verb construct is common.

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