Still more notes on Brazil

Satori, Brazil, notes — Stephen on December 8, 2008 @ 7:19 pm — 0 comments

- A staggering number of adults here have braces. Was there a sudden drop in the price a few years ago? Are people more vain about their smile than they used to be?

- The word for bread, pão is shockingly close to the slang word for penis, pau.

- I just learned a really amazing word in Portuguese, “saudade“