24-09-2025, 06:05 PM
Quote:Other fundamental words include Person and all the ones derived from it. We deform it to Pessoa, and also Pessoal (Personal) – so we have no way of connecting it directly to Personalidade (Personality). Is it necessary to explain how fundamental this word is? In the corrupted form it bears no resemblance to ‘per sonare’ (to sound through) – and because we also deform that ‘sonare’ into ‘soar’ (we do love getting rid of Ns as much as we like adding them in speech to make everything nasal), the severance of the root is complete.
