Minha segunda facul foi letras com habilitação em linguística. Queria ter trabalhado com isso, mas hoje em dia sou só um tradutor mequetrefe :P

Realmente o mistério é mais difícil de solucionar do que parece à primeira vista.

É geralmente assim com palavrão, a etimologia é sempre uma bagunça. Eles são usados constantemente então o significado evolui muito rápido, só que quase não tem registro, as pessoas evitam de escrevê-los.

Só pra te dar um exemplo. Um dos palavrões com etimologia mais bem estudada é o “merda” do latim. Sabemos ser herdado do proto-indo-europeu, e que os falantes de latim usavam-no direto, já que tudo quanto é língua neolatina herdou a merda. Mesmo assim a gente quase não sabe em que situações os falantes de latim usavam a palavra, porque quase nunca era escrita; só em uns epigramas do Marcial e umas pichações em Pompeia. (inb4 sim, é o mesmo “merda” do português.)

Com esses insultos é a mesma coisa. As pessoas evitam de registrar. E nisso a gente perde a história deles.

Nicknames are often erratic — cue to Juca (Joaquim), Chico (Francisco; no idea why the /ʃ/), Mafê (Maria Fernanda). I don’t know why, but I feel like they work through a different logic than simple shortenings.

Se incomoda se eu responder em português? Então, pra resumir a missa: tenho quase certeza que o xingamento (viado) vem do nome do bicho (veado). Motivos:

1. Em português é comum alçar [e o] para [i u] logo antes da sílaba tônica; principalmente em hiato, que vira ditongo, e o [i u] vira [j w]. (O nome técnico disso é “alçamento pré-tônico”, caso queira procurar papers sobre o assunto.)
2. Palavrões muitas vezes são escritos com uma ortografia mais popular, não-padrão, representando a pronúncia. Há outros exemplos disto; tipo boceta→buceta, foder→fuder, até mesmo caralho→caraio (e olha que [ʎ] “lh” →[j] “i” é bem restrito dialetalmente)
3. Há outras expressões usadas para atacar a comunidade gay, associando-os com bichos saltitantes; tipo “gazela”, “biba saltitante”, etc. Tem também “bambi”, mas essa é claramente derivativa de “viado”.

I think it also applies to expletives. Check for example ⟨vagabunda⟩* /va.ga.'bũ.da/; if there was some pressure to keep the stressed syllable it would be clipped into *bunda or *gabunda, but it’s usually clipped into ⟨vagaba⟩ instead. Technically the /b/ from the stressed syllable is still there, but the core /ũ/ ⟨un⟩ is gone.

*gotta explain this one to the folks here. “Vagabunda” means whore, promiscuous woman, etc. It’s highly offensive, way more than the nearest English equivalent (slut), it’s the sort of word to not use even in a joke. (The masculine “vagabundo” is depreciative but socially acceptable — it means lazy arse, do-nothing.)

[Purson’s fast chatterbox mode on]
I remember this arc from the manga, the story is fun, and so far the animation has been great, I have high hopes for this season, the first episode was already a banger, it’s nice to see Purson being introduced to the audience, and Iruma being slightly selfish with his desires.
[Purson’s fast chatterbox mode off]

TL;DR: the season started just right IMO.

100% isso.

Em especial, essa “flexibilidade” aparece bastante pras vogais átonas, variam muito de acordo com o dialeto e o ritmo da fala. E ao contrário da variação nas consoantes, as pessoas não prestam muita atenção nelas.

I’m fairly sure what happened with “viado” in PT was just like “nigga” in English. In both you get a non-standard spelling of another word (“veado” and “nigger”), representing a popular pronunciation of the word (note African American English is non-rhotic, so ⟨er⟩ and ⟨a⟩ would sound both /ə/). But they still sound the same in those popular variations.

Pior que acho que o outro ali nem fala português. Ao menos, não proficientemente. Reparou como ele confundiu “esse” com “isso”?

For that pair of words (ES año vs. PT ano) this works, but note the correspondence gets really messy, it depends on the etymology of the word. A quick run-down would be:

Then for Latin intervocalic /n/ Spanish simply keeps it. Portuguese initially converts it into vowel nasalisation, but then changes it further on, it’s a bit messy:

• corōnam /n/ → ES corona /n/, PT corõa /Ṽ/→coroa Ø “crown”
• pīnum /n/ → ES pino /n/, PT pĩo /Ṽ/→pinho /ɲ/ “pine”
• manum /n/ → ES mano /n/, PT mão /Ṽ/ “hand”

For ES “ano” anus and PT “ânus” anus this doesn’t work, though. Portuguese didn’t inherit the word, but reborrowed it. And perhaps to avoid making it sound like “ano” (year), kept the Latin nominative ending. (If the word was inherited it would end as *ão or something like this.)

It does have a tilde but it’s mostly used over vowels, to represent nasalisation; e.g.

• ⟨mão⟩ /mãw/ [mɜ̃ʊ̯̃] “hand” vs. ⟨mau⟩ /maw/ [mäʊ̯] “bad”
• ⟨mãe⟩ /mãj/ [mɜ̃ɪ̯̃] “mother”
• ⟨limões⟩ /li’mõjs/ [li.'mõɪ̯̃s] “lemons”
• ⟨vã⟩ /vã/ [vɜ̃] “vain” (F)

For /ɲ/ (the phoneme written “ñ” in Spanish) it’s as you said, though: it’s spelled “nh” instead.

This suggests widespread homophobia if enough of them could combine their brainpower to form these few thoughts

Yup, that’s accurate. Welcome to Latin America and its macho culture. People don’t even get why those jokes are bad. Then when the LGBTQ+ community correctly points out that “a piada mata mais do que a bala” (the joke kills more often than the bullet), the default popular reaction is to claim “waaah they’re overreacting” (spoilers: they aren’t).

Viado comes from desviado, which means someone who was driven off the proper path. It’s just a matter of homophony (and homophobia).

I’ve seen people backtracking the etymology to desviado and transviado. I don’t buy it because clipping (truncamento) in Portuguese usually preserves the start of the word, even at the expense of the stressed syllable; e.g.

• universidade university → uni
• refrigerante fizz, soda, coke, pop → refri
• depressivo depressed → deprê

So following the same pattern for “desviado” the result would be *des or *desvi, not “viado”.

It gets weirder with expletives. Like “puta merda” whore shit and “merda do caralho” shit from the dick. They don’t make sense at all, people simply chain whatever profanity they find to “express” their frustration. (And you can even combine them, as “puta merda do caralho” whore shit from the dick. Semantically it’s nuts.)

Maribel being properly creepy pleases me. That’s the sort of character supposed to make you uncomfortable.

And Diablo looks more and more like a puppy. With a mortal bite, but still a puppy.

A bit late to the party, but Ruby’s mood and morality went a 180°. I’m glad she snapped out; even if it took, well, the sort of revelation they should’ve made 16 years ago!

The manga talks about this a bit better, but the whole thing with levels is, it isn’t enough you got roughly the material you want to make something. You need it prepared to high purity, specific dimensions, with proper strength, all that thing. And for that you need… well, modern tech. They’ll speed it up because they already know what they want (and how to get it), but even then it’s going to be a lot of work.

Glad Dr. Xeno joined the team though. Otherwise Senku and the gang would be stuck in Pará forever.

They almost killed the person they were looking for, didn’t they? Oh well. That would turn out nasty!

Ditto here. I don’t know why this got a second season, even if I love the manhwa. And based on the ED this is going to be really, really low budget.

…still watching it.

CRAAAAWWWLING IIIIN MY SKIIIIN, THESE WOOOOUNDS THEY WILL NOT HEEEALL

Sorry. I had to. Serious now we’re deep into chuuni territory, but if it’s enjoyable chuuni or cringe chuuni only time will tell.

Paulo Coelho is one of those authors that remind me how huge the impact of a good translator is.

I read three of his books: Veronika Decide Morrer (Veronika Decides to Die), O Alquimista (The Alchemist), and Onze Minutos (Eleven Minutes). All in the original, in Portuguese. They weren’t as bad as people say, but they all felt lacking polish and substance.

Then I checked Margaret Jull Costa’s translation of Veronika, and it’s like she sprouted life into it. It’s all in the subtle things: replacing a metaphor with another that works better, removing indirection from a more emotional moment, this kind of thing does wonders to make a book feel more alive, like she breathed life into it, while still being faithful to the original.

(Another situation reminding me this impact is Interview with the Vampire. Anne Rice’s original is… okay? Kind of meh, to be honest. Clarice Lispector’s translation into Portuguese is a gem, though.)

you would have to have some sort of developmental disorder

Comparing dialectal variation with developmental disorder? That’s xenophobia and ableism in a single stroke, it’s as filthy and disgusting as the nationalism and classism you parroted in your earlier comment. You’re a bigot and deserve to be treated as such.

And you’re still spreading misinformation. Yes, both words sound the same in a lot of pronunciations. No amount of you lying will magically change this.