(not my meme)

Continental drift. This was a part of Brazil that broke off and drifted across the ocean. Then it joined up with the rest of Spain, which had broken off from Mexico. That's why the rest of Spain speaks Mexican.

I thought Brazilian was a number

Saw a student once using the term "Port of Guesses" unironically in a final submission.

Like, how do you fuck up that badly that you don't notice that? I mean obviously it was just laziness, but still.

So now I've got a minecraft village named the Port of Guesses in honor of that nonsense lol

😘👌🏼

I know it's a shitpost, but here's an interesting piece of History:

• Back in the late 15th century, before Christopher Colombus officially discovered the Americas (more on that later), the Portuguese and the Spanish made a Treaty - the Treaty of Tordesillas - where they divided the World in half, each one getting one half of it.
• Whilst making the Treaty, the original proposal was that the dividing line (remember, this was before the first trip around the World) would be a North-South line, located 20 nautical miles East of the Cape Verde Islands (which are just ~~East~~ West of the coast of Africa). With the Portuguese side being to the East of that line and the Spanish side to the West.
• The Portuguese refused that location and instead wanted that line 20,000 nautical miles East of the Cape Verder islands, which was what ended up in that Treaty.
• Where is now Brazil is to the East of that line, on the Portuguese side, and the rest of South America is to the West of that line, on the Spanish side

This is why the Portuguese and the Brazilians speak the same language, whilst the rest of South America speaks the same language as the Spanish.

Nowadays it's actually believed the Portuguese discovered the Americas before Christopher Columbus did (hence explaining the insistence on the location of that line in the Treaty), though there's also proof that the Vikings discovered the Americas centuries before that.

I blame Afonso Henriques, pictured below

Better question why does a country sharing two land borders speak a completely different language to any other country.

Edit: Y'all forget the French

How to piss off at least three sets of people in one shot.

And in the south of Spain, they speak American. Super weird.

Why do they speak “Brazilian” in Portugal? Same reason people in England speak “American”, obviously. Basic history took the day off, I see. 😅

Maybe it has something to do with the giant red rubber band surrounding it

Ah, yes, the Brazillian Guiana.

I assure you they don't speak Brazilian.

Makes me imagine a world where colonization happened in reverse. England would be fucked.