I was curious about "sisudo" also: Significado de sisudo no Dicionário inFormal online de Português. O que é sisudo: Sério, firme, enfático. Prudente, sensato.
I think you might have been thinking of "dour" although that word is not used much. Beside serious, firm, and emphatic there is also prudent and sensible. But perhaps there is something about stern, harsh, obstinate, and unyielding too? I apologize for my contribution to that impression. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Paulo de Souza Lima [mailto:paulo.s.l...@varekai.org] Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 10:40 To: ooo-dev@incubator.apache.org Subject: Re: Dealing with a large and diverse project - Native Languages and project teams [ ... ] 3 - Some of them, even knowing English language, have difficulties to reach this list because they feel, let's say, unconfortable in dealing with "famous people" like many of you. =) Apache seems to be a serious place (maybe too serious) for those people. They are affraid to be misundestood. [ ... ] Sorry but I can't remember the corresponding word in English for the portuguese word "sisudo", so I placed the word "serious". Maybe someone can help me because Google Translate couldn't. =) [ ... ]
