Brazilian Portuguese is filled with hyperbole and and we love it. Sometime they use very very very very to express a lot. Other times they add pra caramba, which is also fun to say. There are endings available to exaggerate most words. For example, if something is really expensive one could say it is expensive-íssima, if there are a tons of people, one might refer to the people-ada and a really good game is a game-ão. Further, people are always dying of something here. They may die of laughing, of wanting a beer or of needing to pee. And from the pizza down the street to the traffic during summer, many many things are often the best, or the worst, in the world. So, in Portuguese, we are very very very lucky that later today the best cook in the world will make us lunch pra caramba and we will die of happiness to spend the afternoon with our friendãos.
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