... is in Portuguese: DESENRASCANÇO. To understand this word is as good as understanding the Portuguese way of thinking.. or at least one of our special features. Remember Macgyver? He could be Portuguese. He showed many times the ability of solving problems using his wit and capability of doing things without planning ahead. That's something we tend to do mostly everyday. Sometimes the result can be a catastrophy but most of the time we do it alright. We're still alive! And so this word came at the top of the list ''The coolest words the English language needs'' from the website Cracked.com.
Here's what it is said about the word:
''Desenrascanço Means:
To pull a MacGyver.
This is the art of slapping together a solution to a problem at the last minute, with no advanced planning, and no resources. It's the coat hanger you use to fish your car keys out of the toilet, the emergency mustache you hastily construct out of pubic hair.
Where most of us were taught the Boy Scout slogan "be prepared," and are constantly hassled if we don't plan every little thing ahead, the Portuguese value just the opposite.
Coming up with frantic, last-minute improvisations that somehow work is considered one of the most valued skills there; they even teach it in universities, and in the armed forces. They believe this ability to slap together haphazard solutions has been key to their survival over the centuries.
Don't laugh. At one time they managed to build an empire stretching from Brazil to the Philippines this way.
Fuck preparation. They have desenrascanço.''
You can find the entire article here: http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html
Ahah we feel proud to be the perfect Macgyvers, so you can imagine that our lives are like that:
1 comentário:
hahahaha
Pois na era medieval não havia muitos desenrascados não, mas também não havia muita gente preparada. Eu acho que o futuro é mesmo estar-se preparado para tudo e não só para desenrascar.
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