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| Autor: | Dale-CR |
| E-mail: | dale_thomas2004@yahoo.com.br |
| Data: | 15/MAI/2009 11:05 PM |
| Assunto: | son of a b*tch |
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"Jazz is timeless" Could be "Jazz is ageless" too. Again, you wouldn't normally call a woman a "son of a bitch, son of a gun, etc." because she is not anyone's son. In a moment of anger, you will hear it. "Bitch" is something like "puta, vagabunda, cadela, etc." in Portuguese. But you know this. The expression has become more or less "popular" in the past few decades. I don't recall hearing it often prior to 1980. "To bitch" is to complain. (Quit your bitching! = Pare de reclamar!) "A bitch" is something very difficult or unpleasant. (Life is a bitch, and then you die. The examination was a real bitch.) |
English Made in Brazil -- English, Portuguese, & contrastive linguistics
son of a b*tch – sarah Lima 
15/MAI/2009, 11:48 AM son of a b*tch – Dale-CR 15/MAI/2009, 12:19 PM son of a b*tch – sarah Lima 15/MAI/2009, 2:26 PM son of a b*tch – PPAULO 15/MAI/2009, 4:42 PM 
son of a b*tch – Dale-CR 15/MAI/2009, 11:05 PM son of a b*tch – PPAULO 16/MAI/2009, 1:08 AM son of a b*tch – Dale-CR 16/MAI/2009, 1:32 AM son of a b*tch – PPAULO 16/MAI/2009, 1:45 AM son of a b*tch – sarah Lima 18/MAI/2009, 9:53 AM