What's your Brazil name?

**Shadows** · 06-24-2006, 16:40

.Org Name- Shadaldo
Real Name- Herdtfeldinhosa ????

I put in a friend's name and got Kâo. Thats pretty sweet.

**Crazed Rabbit** · 06-24-2006, 16:58

Rabbaldo!

Crazed Rabbit

**Tachikaze** · 06-24-2006, 17:31

Tachi Kaze (separately) becomes "Kazeca"

Much coolness in that one.

**Big_John** · 06-24-2006, 17:41

i put in edson nascimento, and it came back with "nascimentino". weak.

**macsen rufus** · 06-24-2006, 17:41

Your Brazilname is "Macsão" .... not much diffrent, just harder to pronounce

**LeftEyeNine** · 06-24-2006, 17:41

Bwahahahah !

My Org name is Nininho in Brazilian..Way too creative

My real name is Demiraça.

How is "ç" spelled in Brazilian Portuguese ?

**L'Impresario** · 06-24-2006, 17:52

How is "ç" spelled in Brazilian Portuguese ?

If you mean how it's pronounced, then it's like "sh" in "shell" or "shark". Cê-cedilha (ç) is used only before "a" and "o".

**Rodion Romanovich** · 06-24-2006, 18:40

whatdahell isthis becomes: Isthaça
iam bored becomes: Borão Santos

I like that name

**scotchedpommes** · 06-24-2006, 20:02

Neoperestroikaldo.

**Geezer57** · 06-25-2006, 17:06

Originally Posted by L'Impresario

If you mean how it's pronounced, then it's like "sh" in "shell" or "shark". Cê-cedilha (ç) is used only before "a" and "o".

That doesn't seem quite right, at least for Brazilian Portutuguese (maybe in Portugal?). From this site (http://www.deltatranslator.com/delta/pronounce.htm ):

ç — before an a, o or u — pronounced like the s in several

Now I only spent 10 years growing up in Brazil (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), so don't claim to be any sort of authority on the language (high-school level at best), but think I have a "more than casual" ear for its proper pronunciation. That "sh" just didn't sound right for Brazil - maybe Portugal?

I went back in 2000 for a school reunion (my wife's first overseas trip!), and was pleasantly surprized at how easily it came back to me after all those intervening years. When you're young and learn a new language, you keep it for life. Such a shame that the public school systems here in the U.S.A. seldom start students on foreign languages until they're in their teens, usually in high school. Much better to start them in kindergarten.

P.S. that www.minimalsworld.net/BrazilName/brazilian.shtml link appears to be down right now.

**L'Impresario** · 06-25-2006, 18:37

Yes, I don´t know what I was thinking heh
Another thing that shows my mental haziness at the time, I didn´t include "u" in the vowels that appear after a "ç" because I couldn't think of a single word containing such a syllable. Yeah, açúcar anyone:p

There are many differences in pronounciation between Brazilian and European Portuguese, and even grammar, but here it isn't the case. To be precise, there are pronounciation differences even between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.