(urth) This Week in Google Alerts: story with Gaiman

[Fernando Gouvea]

"Presente" as in present tense is the most obvious example. Of course 
there's also "agora", but "now" is not really a synonym of "present" in 
English either. It does derive from "the moment that presents itself", 
of course.

Fernando

On 2/19/2011 11:35 PM, Jeff Wilson wrote:
> On 2/19/2011 12:11 PM, Fernando Gouvea wrote:
>> The same pun works in Portuguese, and probably in many other languages
>> derived from Latin.
>
> Could you give me a Portuguese example? En Espan~ol, "ahora" means 
> now, and "presente" means here. This is also the case in literal 
> English; "the present" is short for "the present moment", "the present 
> time", "the present day", "the present situation", and other 
> intangibles that present themselves the way a person would present a 
> gift to another person.
>

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