'What language do they speak in Brazil?' - Australian TV fail

Mr.Nice Guy

I heard Tim Vickery talking about this on BBC'S 5 Live Football Phone-in.

The Today Show in Australia decided to celebrate Australia's qualification for the World Cup with the presenter asking viewers to help them brush up on their SPANISH. One of the other presenters disputed that Spanish was spoken there - 'don't they speak Italian there?'

Anyways after asking viewers to send them in some Spanish phrases, one clever Brazilian called Diego decided to get his own back by sending in a supposedly Spanish phrase 'do caralho' which the presenters were told means 'amazing effort'.

The problem is 'caralho' is in fact the Brazilian Portuguese word for 'dick' and 'do caralho' is a pretty common Portuguese swear apparently. The presenters then proceeded to say the term amongst themselves landing themselves quite a few complaints in the process...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRFzoYRxutE

Vickery works for Brazilian TV and was able to convince them to air the clip for a Brazilian audience. He said they had to put in a lot of beeps for the Brazilian audience watching and says many viewers there were furious at the gaffe. :pac:

mike65

Did Car(v)alho get a hard time when Porto played in Brazil?

Chucky the tree

Shows also seems like it's good fun with the presenters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_fMN9kFm14

simongurnick

pure mongs...they pronounce it so poorly most Brasilians would not have understood it anyway.

Will I Amnt

simongurnick wrote: »

pure mongs...they pronounce it so poorly most Brasilians would not have understood it anyway.

Let me guess, you have been to Brazil and can speak Portuguese quite well or fluently?

How about Russia? Been there? If I wrote something in Russian and asked you to repeat it, you would get the pronunciation spot on yes?

Whatever about their knowledge of Brazil, to call someone a mong for mispronouncing a word in a foreign language that they are reading for the first time is both ridiculous and pretentious in the extreme.

Oh and it's "Brazilians" in the English language.

TheBza

Will I Amnt wrote: »

Let me guess, you have been to Brazil and can speak Portuguese quite well or fluently?

How about Russia? Been there? If I wrote something in Russian and asked you to repeat it, you would get the pronunciation spot on yes?

Whatever about their knowledge of Brazil, to call someone a mong for mispronouncing a word in a foreign language that they are reading for the first time is both ridiculous and pretentious in the extreme.

Oh and it's "Brazilians" in the English language.

To be fair, they come across as mongs to me as well.

everdead.ie

Isn't that the same crowd that said Michael D was the prime minister and the irish should compete for the British Olympics team as the republic was just an irish joke?

Wouldn't pay much attention to them they are in their own little world and not representative of the Australian people.

Will I Amnt

TheBza wrote: »

To be fair, they come across as mongs to me as well.

If he stopped at "pure mongs" I wouldn't have bothered, the pretentiousness in the following line annoyed me.