quinta-feira, 16 de abril de 2009

As 10 expressões estrangeiras mais cool que a língua inglesa precisava

A Sena do Mar mostrou-me isto e eu tive que publicar!!...
É verdade, isto está mesmo num site. Há expressões desde o yiddish, passando pelo dialecto que se fala na Ilha da Páscoa, o Gaélico Escocês ou o Japonês. Mas este site (www.cracked.com) põe a seguinte expressão em primeiro lugar, juntamente com a explicação:

#1.
Desenrascanço (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 moustache you hastily construct out of pubic hair.
What's interesting about desenrascanço (literally "to disentangle" yourself out of a bad situation), the Portuguese word for these last-minute solutions, is what it 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.
Fuck preparation. They have desenrascanço.

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3 comentários:

morski pas disse...

Genial...
To pull a Macgyver....simplesmente genial, Lol.

adelie disse...

Absolutamente fantástico!! :) fuck preparation!! hell yeahhh!!!

Medusa disse...

Mesmo genial... a nossa cultura definida numa só palavra.

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