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From: Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com>
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Subject: Re: Rio e riu (pt)
Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 21:32:20 +0200
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Thu, 16 May 2024 13:03:14 -0000 (UTC): Antonio Marques
<no_email@invalid.invalid> scribeva:

>Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:
>> Wed, 15 May 2024 16:06:24 -0000 (UTC): Antonio Marques
>> <no_email@invalid.invalid> scribeva:
>> 
>>> Ruud Harmsen <rh@rudhar.com> wrote:
>>>> Na conjugação do verbo ‘rir’ vemos semelhanças cruzadas em quatro
>>>> formas verbais: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rir#Conjugation_3
>>>> ri = she laughs
>>>> ri = I laughed
>>>> E também:
>>>> rio = I laugh
>>>> riu = she laughed
>>> 
>>> I laugh of January
>>> 
>>> https://br.pinterest.com/pin/576249714819711035/
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Pergunta: as pronúncias de ‘rio’ e ‘rui’ são idênticas? Ou existe uma
>>>> differença subtil? Eu pensaria: em ‘rio’ o acento tónico está no i, em
>>>> ‘riu’ o acento está no ditongo enteiro.
>>> 
>>> *alguma (otherwise it suggests you have the exact difference in mind -
>>> which you do have, but then the entire tone of the paragraph changes
>>> markedly)
>> 
>> So the difference between:
>> Is there a difference?
>> Is there any difference?
>> is more marked in Portuguese than in English?
>> 
>> In Dutch, "Is er een verschil?" can mean both, and "Is er enig
>> verschil?" sounds a bit too emphatic, is somewhat formal,
>> old-fashioned, and maybe reeks of badly translated English.
>> 
>
>I would venture that 
>
>há diferença? / há alguma diferença? both mean
>- Is there a difference?
>- Is there any difference?
>
>whereas
>
>há uma diferença (...)? means
>- Is there a certain difference (...)?

Interesting. I don't 'feel' such things. Not enough exposure, I guess.

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Ruud Harmsen, https://rudhar.com