Belated welcome to everyone from Ctrl+Alt+FODA-SE!!!. Looks like what started as an offhand comment about one post turned into something rather interesting. Now I need to find a reliable translator so I can have an opinion of C-A-F more sophisticated than "lookit this post in all caps in another language, hur hur." I can get a vague gist of some parts because it's similar to Spanish. I recall Isaac Asimov writing one time that it's next to impossible to know Spanish and Portuguese at the same time if you're not a native speaker of either. So maybe I'll wait until after I take my Spanish final, lest I start writing an essay about Jorge Luis Borges in Portuguese (or after my dissertation is done, if Prof. Turner sucks me into doing my research as part of his Southern Yucatan project).