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I'm reconsidering my terminal emulator and was curious what everyone was using.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Silva? Are you Portuguese or Brazilian?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither, actually. I don't know why I call myself silva, but that's not my real name.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol thats a common surname here in Brazil. It means jungle in latin so the priests used to give this surname to converted natives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. In English, "Silvan" mean a spirit that lives in the woods. It's often used in literature as a synonym for "elves."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's what I was thinking, but I noped out of a linguistics minor after a year when I realized it was never going to turn into "learning a bunch of languages" and was instead spending all your time doing sentance diagramming.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Quase que achei que fosse tuga

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

kkkkk mais um!