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14 gru 2015 · I had a look at four of the main Portuguese newspapers, and all of them use raised "aspas". – Jacinto. Dec 14, 2015 at 10:08. 2. About « and »: Wikipedia calls them "angular quotes"; they're how I learned to quote in school (very early nineties), but nowadays the raised quotes are more commonly used in Portugal; the pt-PT keyboard has a ...
18 cze 2020 · Dropping the quotes and using em dashes (travessão) instead is a very common choice, and its usage is explained in guifa's answer. But it should be clear that that's actually a stylistic option and that both in pt-PT and pt-BR, direct speech can be indicated using quotes. Direct speech can be found indicated, among others, by:
14 gru 2015 · The em dash (but not the en dash) is also used to set off the sources of quotes: "Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice." —Mahatma Gandhi
Tyler James Willians being spammed with quotes from "Everybody Hates Chris" by Brazilians. Brazilians spamming Grammy's page with indications for the singer Inês Brasil (this resulted in a ban) Bad habits in games by Brazilians
Não encontrei referência alguma condenando o uso do e/ou, pelo contrário, a única observação frequentemente feita é no sentido do uso, obviamente, dever ser o adequado, ou seja, significa que ser possível ter: apenas A, e. apenas B, e. A e B simultaneamente. Entre os que confirmam o uso de e/ou estão os linguistas Mafalda Antunes (link ...
English (Portuguese below) Yes, palpite meant ‘hunch’ before 1900 already, both in Brazil and Portugal. The first known use indicated in Dicionário Houaiss (Lisbon, 2002)―my first port of call for these type of enquiries―is the entry in the 1878 Moraes Silva dictionary (original spelling, rather different from the current one, in all quotes):
Portuguese for a while did add a slim space before certain punctuation as I've seen it in a number of books published in the 1850s to 1920s ish period (like the question mark and exclamation) but it's not standard anymore. – user0721090601. Dec 6, 2015 at 18:23. @guifa Oh, great. If you have a picture of such a book, posting it as an answer ...
19 kwi 2021 · This other article explains it. It does not mention specifically the -son trend, but it quotes some examples of exceptionally weird names found across the country. Some people are calling for a stricter law that allows to change names that are embarrassing.
Neste caso particular, o verbo começar deverá ser complementado com um gerúndio, seja na sua forma simples (ex. "acordando") ou com a preposição a seguido então de um verbo no infinitivo (ex. "a acordar").
26 kwi 2016 · Here are a few examples, starting with the earliest example I could find (emphasis mine, in all quotes): Muito livrinho dourado e enfeitado vejo eu lá por essa banda. [Francisco Manuel de Melo, O hospital das letras, 1657.] ALGODOEIRO. Planta, que dà Algodaõ.
