• Johniegordo@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    There seems to be a miss translation on the first saying. What she says translate to " Hey!! Hey!! (Watch out) the rope, mate". “Acorda” translates tô “wakeup”. “A corda” translates to someone pointing to the substantive “hope”. But they both sound the same without a context.

    Furthermore, she indeed seems to realize that something was working at that moment.

    • egrets@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Thanks! I did wonder whether it might be a noun that was a cognate of “cord” (as in rope, cable, string), but I don’t speak a word of Portuguese.