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Brazilian Easter in my own way

Apr 14th, 2009 | By Vitoria | Category: English

Being such a big country means that the Easter traditions vary a lot, according to the region – or religion. But as I have never experienced a Catholic Easter, I prefer to describe the Easter that I´ve had for the past 20 years in a Lutheran – yet not super religious – family.



Viajar pelo Brasil

Mar 30th, 2009 | By Vitoria | Category: Português

[English] Antes de mais nada: se você pretende viajar de forma barata em qualquer lugar você deve evitar os locais turísticos. Porém, como um turista, você provavelmente vai querer visitar os lugares mais famosos (e consequentemente mais turísticos) – e não simplesmente viajar por cidades das quais você nunca ouviu falar. Muito bem, mãos à [...]



Traveling in Brazil

Mar 30th, 2009 | By Vitoria | Category: English

If you want to travel cheaply anywhere you should try to avoid the most touristic places. However, as a foreigner, you probably will want to see the most famous (and therefore touristic) spots – and not just travel randomly through cities you´ve never heard of.



Latinos´ license plates

Mar 19th, 2009 | By Vitoria | Category: English

I was considering giving up on writing this article about license plates, because I thought it would just end up being boring. After all, what is so special about license plates?



Placas de veículos na América Latina

Mar 19th, 2009 | By Vitoria | Category: Português

[English] Estava pensando seriamente em desistir de escrever um artigo sobre as placas de carro no Brasil ou na América Latina, porque pensei que seria um assunto chato. Afinal, o que as placas tem de especial? Porém, ao ler os textos dos meus colegas do Lexiophiles sobre as placas de veículos nos seus países eu [...]



Telenovelas’ Heroes

Mar 4th, 2009 | By Vitoria | Category: English

Brazil has no famous superheroes. It’s simple as that. No Batman or Superman. The children idolize the American heroes and watch Japanese cartoons on TV. But people grow up anyway, and maybe their childhood heroes don´t seem to be that fun anymore.



Novelas e seus herois

Mar 4th, 2009 | By Vitoria | Category: Português

[English] O Brasil não tem super-herois famosos. Simples assim. Nada de Batman, Asterix ou Superman. As crianças crescem idolatrando os herois americanos ou assistindo a desenhos japoneses. Mas no final das contas, quando elas tornam-se adultas, quem são seus super-herois? Na América Latina é bastante claro, ao menos para as mulheres. Talvez você já tenha [...]



The return of Old Macdonald

Feb 25th, 2009 | By Vitoria | Category: English

♪♪ Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O And on his farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O ♪♪ Do you still remember the song? After the success of our first farm edition [that you can find here], the Lexiophiles contributors are back showing some more differences on the way human beings try to imitate the animal [...]



Títulos de filmes – vocês estão fazendo errado

Feb 23rd, 2009 | By Vitoria | Category: Português

[English] Talvez você já tenha visto por aí algo que virou uma modinha na Internet. As fotos de “You’re doing it wrong” (você está fazendo errado). Pois bem, são fotos normais nas quais as pessoas escrevem simplesmente essa frase – e acaba tornando-se engraçado. Alguns exemplos disso são essas fotos: Falar no telefone – você [...]



Movie titles: you’re doing it wrong!

Feb 23rd, 2009 | By Vitoria | Category: English

Maybe you´ve already seen somewhere something that has become kind of famous among Internet users: the “You’re doing it wrong” pictures. They are photos where people just write this sentence on – and it somehow ends up funny.