http://semantics-online.org/2005/08/essentialist-explanations A weblog on semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, and intersections thereof Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:15:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://semantics-online.org/2005/08/essentialist-explanations#comment-226 Tony Marmo Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:41:59 +0000 http://www.semantics-online.org/wp/uncategorized/2005/08/essentialist-explanations#comment-226 <p>Just make one important distinction: <b>Brazilian</b> is a group of 200 non-Indo-European languages spoken by the aboriginal Peoples of Brazil. There is also Brazilian <b>Portuguese</b> which is another variety of Portuguese or a group of dialects of Portuguese spoken in Brazil. There is also Brazilian <b>German</b> which is a variety of German spoken by German-Brazilian families in the South region of Brazil (who may sometimes be unaware that they speak a different variety of German).</p> Just make one important distinction: Brazilian is a group of 200 non-Indo-European languages spoken by the aboriginal Peoples of Brazil. There is also Brazilian Portuguese which is another variety of Portuguese or a group of dialects of Portuguese spoken in Brazil. There is also Brazilian German which is a variety of German spoken by German-Brazilian families in the South region of Brazil (who may sometimes be unaware that they speak a different variety of German).

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