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"The myths, or the received wisdom, about Portuguese language in Brazil is that, of course we know we speak a very different version of the language, but this has always been explained to us as maybe perhaps a defect of sorts?" says linguist and translator Caetano Galindo, author of Latim em P\\xf3, a history of Brazilian Portuguese. "You look deeper into things and you find you have to wrap your mind around a very different reality.\\u201d\\xa0
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