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#1 16-04-2009, 15:27:07 PM
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http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html

#1. Desenrascanso (Portuguese)

Means:

To pull a MacGyver.

This is the art of slapping together a solution to a problem at the last minute, with no advanced planning, and no resources. It's the coat hanger you use to fish your car keys out of the toilet, the emergency mustache you hastily construct out of pubic hair.

What's interesting about desenrascanso (literally "to disentangle" yourself out of a bad situation), the Portuguese word for these last-minute solutions, is what is says about their culture.

Where most of us were taught the Boy Scout slogan "be prepared," and are constantly hassled if we don't plan every little thing ahead, the Portuguese value just the opposite.

Coming up with frantic, last-minute improvisations that somehow work is considered one of the most valued skills there; they even teach it in universities, and in the armed forces. They believe this ability to slap together haphazard solutions has been key to their survival over the centuries.

Don't laugh. At one time they managed to build an empire stretching from Brazil to the Philippines this way.

fetch preparation. They have desenrascanso.

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#2 16-04-2009, 15:54:31 PM
that's no excuse not to do your homework, mister. Back to school with you.




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#3 16-04-2009, 15:55:36 PM
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Quote from: JC VON BASTARD on 16-04-2009, 15:54:31 PM
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#4 16-04-2009, 16:23:53 PM
Quote from: JC VON BASTARD on 16-04-2009, 15:54:31 PM
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#6 16-04-2009, 18:12:52 PM
2 japanese words are on the list

japan > portugal


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The Portuguese one is in FIRST MOTHERFUCKER! Plus, it means "to pull a MacGuyver", if that ain't awesome, I dunno what is


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#8 16-04-2009, 18:28:15 PM
They translated it wrong.

It actually means "We can't make any good t.v shows of our own so we are going to steal one from America"





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#9 16-04-2009, 23:51:04 PM
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Quote from: ZIGS_ARE_WINNER on 16-04-2009, 18:26:42 PM
The Portuguese one is in FIRST MOTHERFUCKER!
Don't get too hung up on the numbers.  Cracked.com figured out a long time ago that you can triple the readership of any lame article by adding the illusion of "Top 10" to it.  It's known as the "Letterman-VH1 Law Of Arbitrary Quantification".


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#10 17-04-2009, 07:15:05 AM
Quote from: Cirus on 16-04-2009, 18:12:52 PM
2 japanese words are on the list

japan > portugal
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Quote from: ZMann on 21-03-2009, 14:35:39 PM

You are a nigh-endless expanse of off-white nothingness that sexes clowns on camera.
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#11 17-04-2009, 07:15:42 AM
Quote from: The Zmann on 16-04-2009, 23:51:04 PM
Quote from: ZIGS_ARE_WINNER on 16-04-2009, 18:26:42 PM
The Portuguese one is in FIRST MOTHERFUCKER!
Don't get too hung up on the numbers.  Cracked.com figured out a long time ago that you can triple the readership of any lame article by adding the illusion of "Top 10" to it.  It's known as the "Letterman-VH1 Law Of Arbitrary Quantification".
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Quote from: ZMann on 21-03-2009, 14:35:39 PM

You are a nigh-endless expanse of off-white nothingness that sexes clowns on camera.
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#12 17-04-2009, 18:25:58 PM
here's a good word that portugese needs:

dasmfgndfjkgndip

meaning f u


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#13 20-04-2009, 20:10:28 PM
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Quote from: JC VON BASTARD on 16-04-2009, 15:54:31 PM
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