Linguistics is a amazing field, Karfein! During my research I felt like taking the time to write an article about street toponymy, since there are many great stories about how the oficial streets were named. In the case of Brazil, we have many streets with indigenous names that few people know the meaning, as there are many different languages and they are almost extinct.
Here in São Paulo we have the Anhangabaú valley, which means "old devil's" valley, and the Pirajuí street, which means "the golden fish river" street in the linguistic trunk known as Tupi-Guarani.
The Guarani were the most populous tribe in this region (that's why we have many streets and neighborhoods with names given by the indigenous people, during the colonization period) and were part of the Tupi trunk, which was one of the most important in Brazil. In other regions there were a number of other different tribes, with different languages, such as the Ticuna, Caingangue (from the Macro-Jê trunk, which is another very important one), Terena, Yanomami, Xavantes, Pataxó and many others. : )
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It is indeed. As for street naming in Poland it's in the vast majority of cases rather boring (random adjectives and of course famous and sometimes infamous people).
My BA thesis was about creating a modified-modifier dictionary for swords and slashing weapons in PL-FR-EN. Nothing especially interesting, just quite a lot of adjective-noun expressions in one language turned out to have a specific single word in another etc.
And MA thesis was about disambiguation of the word "to call" EN->PL with the aim to prepare it in such a way that it's quite ready for automated translation that takes into consideration the context (among others what class objects preceed and succeed the verb). Turned out that using the method our rector devised I found out 2 more translations than two biggest EN-PL dictionaries combined provided so it was a surprise for me and was much more fun analyzing the text corpus.
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Meus Parabéns Rafael por essa sua conquista do diploma de Mestrado! ❤️ Acho muito interessante essa área de Urbanismo e achei sua tese incrível.
Eu moro na cidade de Jaú-SP, acredito que alguns anos atrás, com a expansão da cidade, algumas famílias ficaram sem um endereço formal, mas em seguida a prefeitura veio regularizando aos poucos e fazendo as devidas nomeações dos bairros e ruas.
Particularmente não fazia ideia que existia mais de 3 milhões de residências que oficialmente não existem, esse numero e bem assustador se pensarmos que no mínimo cada residência pode morar 3+ pessoas.
Bom, espero sempre que você continue estudando e que agora possa desfrutar um pouco mais do seu tempo como quiser (principalmente jogando hahaha). Fico feliz também de ver você, uma pessoa BR, interagindo tanto assim com essa comunidade e compartilhando seus momentos, isso é raro e bonito 😉
Fique seguro cara, e agradeço sua generosidade com o TRAAAAINN hahaha 👨🎓👏
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Hello, beautiful beings!
This week my master's thesis was approved and I ended an important cycle of my life (now come the articles and publications that will derive from this work, plus many other years of study, of course).
In times of greatest distress I went through this site as a way to "make up" the fact that I wasn't able to play anything because of lack of time. As a result, I became a more active member of this community (but not as much) and increased my whitelist.
Speaking of lists... to celebrate my master degree I gave an amnesty to all users who were on my blacklist. Most were suspected of using bots to get into GAs, but there were one or two that had misbehaved in the past that I don't even remember because they are blocked (except for someone who was being quite inconvenient with multiple users in another website and that I blocked here too). So, if you couldn't get into my GAs before, avoid copying and pasting a repeated thank you message to every GA you join, so you don't look like a robot (i know most of you just want to be nice, and you guys are great for that, but the repeated messages are pretty suspicious) and try to be nice to people.
I was also blocked a few times here at SteamGifts. The first few times for doing GA with games that were for free on other sites (at some point I learned it wasn't "elegant" and I stopped it) and other times simply "because" (I was added to some blacklists when I made my first train, for example, and I never understood why). But I probably must have been an asshole to some people a few times, for whatever reason, even if that wasn't my intention. So if I joined your list a long time ago, consider talk to me about it (it took me a while to figure out how everything works around here).
Anyway. I've set aside some cheap games to celebrate my master's degree, all with at least 80% of the positive reviews, which you can access here.
♥
I know that some will be curious about my thesis, so I explain that I graduated in the area of Urban Planning, with a research about the lack of formal address in the brazilian cities. For slum dwellers or homeless people, for example, not having a oficial address means that they cannot receive postal items, enroll children in schools, register or receive government assistance (at the moment, some Brazilian cities are requiring proof of address to apply Covid's vaccine, to avoid "vaccine tourism", only this leaves out residents of irregular areas, precisely the poorest and most vulnerable people in our society). For the government, the irregularity of some areas means that it will not be able to take evective actions related to basic sanitation, health, urban planing and maintenance or containment of violence, in addition to representing that part of the taxes is not properly collected (a small town with little more than 100,000 inhabitants, for example, had an increase of more than four million reais after regularizing certain informal areas and this is a significant amount that greatly increases the government's investment capacity). Anyway, the lack of addresses is bad for everyone, and in Brazil I estimate that more than 3 million homes are on streets that do not officially exist. Thats it.
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