WARNING! This one has swears. Ken and Dee join us to chat about how Halloween came to America and its meandering evolution to the present day. How did paper decorations made by the Beistle Company influence how you celebrate Halloween? Why did America make the switch from tricks to treats? Who will win in the showdown between paper plate masks and the metaphysical? Our apologies to the Irish. LISTEN TO THE ANTIQUES FREAKS BEISTLE EPISODE https://antiquesfreaks.podbean.com/e/094-beistle-halloween...
Oct 28, 2020•48 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Luiz quizzes Monica on the strange, translated titles of classic American movies. Can she parse the Portuguese, puzzle over the English, and name the films? After the break, Luiz shares memories of New England Fall and discusses the differences between US and Brazilian Halloween. Luiz doesn't want to go apple picking (WHAT IS WRONG WITH HIM?!). Join us on Facebook for more New England, more Brazil, and more goofing around. Just search New Yankee Wordshop Podcast. Subscribe to receive notificatio...
Oct 22, 2020•51 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Luiz and Monica try to figure out exactly when they met in Massachusetts during Luiz's exchange year. We discuss a lot of interesting tidbits of life in Brazil when Luiz takes a quiz, including why you need to be VERY careful when ordering coconut water in Portuguese. And why was Luiz fired from one of his first jobs? Throw on your schlip-schlaps and find out. Take the quiz yourself, and log on to New Yankee Wordshop Podcast Facebook Group to tell us whether you're more Brazilian than Luiz! http...
Oct 15, 2020•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 7
No listener questions this week, buuuuut, triple your Balderdash, triple your fun! Special Guest Ken, of the Antiques Freaks Podcast, stops by to quiz me on some words no one outside of the 19th c. or a horse barn would know. Ken & Co. prepared THREE rounds of Balderdash for me! I should not have been surprised that the first word had a nautical theme. Will I be able to find the correct definitions of Tom Astoner, skewbald, and rainscald? I might, if I can stop making cultural asides. After ...
Sep 09, 2020•32 min•Season 1Ep. 6
It's the last gasp of New England summer...we hope. This week: listener questions on pronunciation lead us to discuss the factors in language evolution, and we discover the true origin of the phrase "cutting corners". Just how many Brazilian Portuguese R's are there? Everyday, commonly used Brazilian Portuguese phrases that reference religion, why do Massachusetts-ers pronounce "twenty" so it rhymes with "honey"? And Luiz recalls insulting Monica's husband immediately upon meeting him for the fi...
Aug 31, 2020•37 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode, you get TWO games of Balderdash for the price of one!!! Brought to you by forgetting to hit record. Tune in to learn the correct (and very INCORRECT) definitions of "nidifugous" and "widdershins". Questions this week: What does "apple of my eye" mean? Why do we have so many pronunciations for words ending in "ough"? Are there any words in Portuguese that sound like words in English, but just don't translate? And I would just like to state for the record that I know that Romance ...
Aug 25, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 4
We answered a question! Hooray! Hang in there - FIRST, we talk about Luiz's beloved home city, Juiz de Fora, and what is the fun way to pronounce "universidade". We also discuss the weather man's role in Boston perceptions of Western, MA, and what makes New England homes so cozy. Monica falls down a Wikipedia hole, but fights her way back out. FINALLY, we help Monica's brother hang with the New Bedford Azoreans despite his Western, MA mouth. What did he ask? Tune in to find out! Friends, do YOU ...
Aug 10, 2020•34 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Hey! We remembered to answer listener questions! Roz wanted to know, "As a woman, should I say 'Obrigado' or 'Obrigada'?", Dee has an excellent question about gendered languages and gender-neutrality (which we may have half answered?). We discuss various Minas accents, who thinks that bus belongs to them, why is "Colonel" spelled that way in the first place, Presidente/Presidenta and Sir/Ma'am (and SHOULD she be offended?), and the widow/widower theory [Luiz Castro, TM]. Did you play Clue as a k...
Aug 03, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Hello! This is not quite the episode we had intended to record. It was our first try. Future episodes will ACTUALLY include listener questions about English and Portuguese, more concrete remembrances of time spent in New England and Brazil, and some real quizzes and games will go down. We talked in a circle, got lost, figured out where we should have gone, and had to spend the night in the woods anyway, so to speak. This episode we seem to have managed to cover times of day, a little about meals...
Jul 28, 2020•40 min
