December 31, 2004
Brazilian Cartoon Character Speaks Portuguese "Chat"
Brazilian cartoonist Mauricio de Sousa just announced the introduction of a new character to the popular "Monica's Gang" series. His name is "Bloguinho" ("Little Blog") and he only speaks the Portuguese online "chat" jargon--the equivalent of our LOL and BRB.
Here is a picture of the new character, coming out of Cebolinha's computer screen:
As you can see, he is talking in the chat abbreviations. The ":)' is fairly universal. The "blz?" is short for "beleza?" and means "is everything ok?".
I chat online with Brazilians quite frequently. Here are a couple the abbreviations they use, complete with English equivalents:
kkkkk=lol
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk=rofl
rsrsrs=hehe
vctb-u2
Some of the Portuguese chat lingo (or "chatês", as it is called) is actually a rewriting of words to avoid the use of accents, which are difficult to type.
Thus não (no) becomes naum, aqui (here) becomes aki, and so on and so forth.
For those of you for whom Portuguese is not a problem, here a few Brazilian blogs that reported this story:
Posted by Andrew on December 31, 2004 2:00 PM.
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