The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1911-03-04
VERBAL PITFALLS.
Traps That Await English Speak
ing Tourists In Portugal.
THERE ARE NO TOES THERE.
But, Then. One Has Twenty Fingers
to Make Up the Loss, Fingers of the
Hand and Fingers of the Foot-oddi-
ties Of the Verb "to Walk"

1 Hand and Fingers of the Foot-Oddi
ties of the Verb ito Walk"
/ The EngHshman or American II
| Portugal who thinks In his own Ian
| guage and tries TO speak in the Ian
guage Of the country he is visiting il
great smile producer.
For instance, you never marry any
body In Portugal unless-strange para
dox-you happen to be a priest. Yot
| marry with" your beloved Maria. anc
the priest marries you both. In tn,
same way you never dream about any
body, but always with" them.
When the iandlady at your boardin,
house Is iadling out your soup you
call out Arrive" You are telling
her TO arrive at the stopping point-iil
other words. that You don't want more
than She has put out, When you see
child that you want TO fondIe at the
other side Of the room you say to her,
"Arrive here" And the child prompt
" arrives"
III AShS5AelhA bCEJ We 6{gSdh VI W AHA
ing we refer to a certain use of the
legs. But the Portuguese verb ito
walk" has many more Specifications.
In Portugal not only do the people
walk, but also the carts and cars walk
the trims walk. a balloon walks, and
boat walks, Stranger still. the
hands OF clock walk round the face!
A clock. By the way, never goes; il
works.
Unless you are very ultimate or vorv
rT-tro goa never say to your fair part
ner at dinner, will son have some
breadY' etc. You inquire, win your
excellency have some bread~ or. 'Will
the lady have some breadY' the lady
meaning not some other lady, but your
fair partner herself.
In spite of winter you are never cold
IN Portugal unless you are corpse
You are with cold. In the Same
way you are occasionally with heat
with headache, with hunger or
with" thirst. When you have occa-
sion TO. discuss the weather you say
ut makes cold "1t makes fog"
etc. On your way home from an en-
you tell yeuF companion
THAI it makes" dark.
If speaking Of her husband wife
says he is q tame" man She merely
means that he is a man OF peace ard
justice.
The word ''house" means more than
with us. Youg buttons share your own
privilege Of living in a house. The
are called houses Of
the buttons" The squares on a chess
board are also houses" You don't
say. I'm going TO shave" You say.
"Pm going to do the beard" Neither
do you say on the way to rhe bar
ber's. "T'm going to get my itssf cut. >"
but you say. I'm going 70 cut n3
hair
When you are Ia Portugal you have
twenty fingers, bot no toes. II you
want to make a distinction you
say fingers Of the hand" or
fingers of the foot" Instead OF
telling the servant TO set the table
you ten her TO put 1t. When Won
go to the theater you assist" You
don't mean by that that you come
on" nor even that you do little scene
shifting. You mean that you are there.
Residents in fats who mediate taxi
ing a holiday in Portugal VIII be re
heved 10 hear that no one plays che
piano there. They merely 'touch' IT.
Neither DO they ring bells. they
touch" them also. But they play"
stones. meaning that they throw
them, and ship at sea plays" when
It pitches and losses.
Be careful how you tell your Land.
lady that you intend to dine out or
she may thf2t, With shrug of the
shoulders, that yoN intend dtniA :
''outside"---i e., Ia the garden. In 4
swer to the kind inquiries of yo,49
friends don't say thar YOU are well;
say that you are good" Be careful
IA your use of words. Some words
similar 10 form are widely different tn
meaning, as an American missionary
once discovered TO his cost when
preaching Ia Brazil. once Portuguese
colony His subject was THE Prodi
gal SON." and he graveIy informed his
hearers tina, when the young man re
turned home his father Killed for him
the fatted beetle! But he had merely
made mistake in one solitary vowel.
A sleeping" bridge means q bridge
that Is immovable mot a dra wbridge)
Stagnant water also sleeps" So dt
trucks or trains that wait anywher
during the night. When they laugh Ii
Portugal they ''antie themselves e
laugh and when they cry they "un
make themselves In tears" A persist
entity unfortunate man says, II am 81
uniucky that II fell on my back
should break my nOsew-Londop An
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