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Thread: Words The English Language Needs
Tiago 12:54 8th October 2009
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The major word english language needs is a Portuguese word:

"Desenrascanco"

It's very true, it defines us very nice, we were such an empire 500 years ago thanks to "Desenrascanco" .... don't know why we lost it...

It something like "Un-sh**-yourself" means that your have a problem and you have to solve it but you don't know what to do, or you don't have qualification to do it, so you have to improvise, to get out of that sh** in a fast and simple way.

so you have to "Desenrascar" (verb)
it is a "Deseranscanco"
you can say to another person "un-sh** yourself": "desenrasca-te" (verb variation)

But "Desenrascanco" is a nice form of saying it.
But the most used word (bad word) is "desenmerda-te" direct translation of "un-sh** yourself"
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