The Best Ever Book of Portuguese Jokes: Lots and Lots of Jokes Specially Repurposed for You-Know-Who

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This lead to the end of Estado Novo and the 25 th April Revolution, which has as one of their main points of action to decolonize. This led to a hasty decolonization of Portuguese Africa, making many of the countries enter a civil war and to the 1975 invasion of East Timor by Indonesia, to which the subsequent Portuguese governments were vehemently opposed to. The rapid decolonization lead to a huge refugee crisis of nearly all of the Portuguese settlers, and many other people from the former colonies, to Portugal. These were known as the “retornados” (the returnees) and they numbered over 500,000 people.

Short portugal puns are one of the best ways to have fun with word play in English. The portugal humour may include short referendum jokes also. When the Portuguese language was born a few centuries later, it ended up adopting weird Christianized names for all weekdays throughout the year. Still more confusing is the fact that in modern Portuguese feira means “fair” (as in “trade fair”) instead of “day off”. 10. Quebra-molas A mosquito is named a mosquito in Portuguese too. Yet to account for the ferocity and huge dimensions of the specimens you’ll be introduced to in the tropics, natives came up with a fitting term: pernilongo, or “long-leg”.The Portuguese believe every region of Portugal is unique and you can’t know Portugal just by visiting a few cities. It’s definitely worth it to explore just a little bit more and soak up the cultures and diversity. 10. Never say the Portuguese are lazy

Apparently, the expression originated to describe beggars who would hide an arm underneath their coats to pass themselves off as disabled war veterans. 16. Dor de cotovelo The Portuguese phrases I’ve included in this phrasebook is of the European usage which differs from the Brazilianin sounds and pronunciation. Even though both European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese speakers will slightly understand each other if they do communicate. You “pull a John-the-armless” whenever you pretend you can’t or don’t know how to do something in the hope that someone else will do it for you. Yes, if you thought I am referring to the city in Switzerland, you are right. We do say that if you are like your own people, you are not from Geneva. Der Deutschlehrer fragt Bini: “Was ist das für ein Fall, wenn du sagst: Das Lernen macht mir Freude?” Bini überlegt nicht lange: “Ein seltener, Herr Lehrer.” 4. Husbands hate shopping in every language, apparently

This made the Portuguese economy grow a lot, with the overseas commercial network and colonial trade accounting for about 1/5 of the Portuguese national income. Decline Why was Portugal the best colonial power? Spain had thousands of colonists, Britain had millions, but Portugal had BRAZILIANS. If you speak Spanish, watch for a lot of new vowels, a huge number of contractions (comparable to del and al) and irregular plurals. For the non-fluent, some pronunciation differences can be easily missed, such as año (year) becoming ano. If you speak French well, you may find Portuguese pronunciation to be fairly easy, though much of the vocabulary will have changed substantially. These days folks normally favor less polite phrases to express the same idea, but you’re guaranteed to make a native speaker laugh if you use it.

But when lawyers at GLAN suggested suing governments via the European Court of Human Rights, he hesitated. He wasn't sure what a lawsuit was, only that it was "something adults did to each other." Despite appearances, the expression isn’t as surreal as it may sound. The verb pregar can also mean “to preach” or, in this case, “to fold”. This definition, however, is all but archaic these days. Alternatively, you can ask if they had dormido com o Bozo (i.e., “slept with Bozo”) as well, though Zoomers probably won’t get this one.Why did the Portuguese music teacher go broke? Because he couldn’t find a good “note” to invest in! As a native speaker, I may not be exactly impartial when I say Portuguese is among the funniest languages out there. Yet, those of you who’ve already taken to studying it should be able to agree with me. The main difference between Austrians and the Germans is that Germans would like to understand Austrians but can’t, and Austrians understand Germans but would rather not.