Word of the Day
beatitude | |
Definition: | Supreme blessedness or happiness. |
Synonyms: | blessedness, beatification |
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Birthday song
I just saw on TV that a certain Brazilian show is celebrating its tenth anniversary, to which they played Happy Birthday to You. I thought how someone's language can influence one's behavior. Portuguese speakers, who have only one word for anniversary and birthday, aniversário, may not see a problem playing and/or singing that song to an anniversary, but speakers of languages that differentiate between anniversaries and birthdays, like English, might find that odd.
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