Thanks Manuel On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, <p...@dholmes.com> wrote:
> Great explanation, Manoel. > > Obrigado! > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] Re: Bischo/Bisho > From: mances <man...@gmail.com> > Date: Sat, March 23, 2013 9:29 am > To: azores@googlegroups.com > > Pam, > > I am not a native english speaker, so I don´t know if I can explain it > well, but bicho not always has a pejorative connotation. > Here in Brazil in the early 1960's the word bicho was a slang referring to > a friend, to a dude, a buddy, a guy. > If you say "E aí, bicho?", it is almost the same as "What's up guy, dude > ?", something like that. > > Bicho means insects and animals in general. > > In the northeast area of Brazil the word 'bichinho", the diminutive form, > is used as a gentle way to call someone you like. > > So, it's very difficult to say what was the connotation of the word bicho > used as an 'alcunha' one or two centuries before. > > > Manoel Cesar Furtado > > -- > -- > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions > when they arrive. > For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
