O RETORNO
70%? Sure! 1% actually ask something about ETYMOLOGY, as the way it is, and the rest, I mean, the other 29% of the questions people make to you, well, they ask for something non-language related, am I right? Have you seen the other question here? About pigs! How do you stand it?! I admire you guys because of that, seriously! I wish I had your patience! Anyway, I just would like to share something interesting I’ve just found. There you go: did you know that the word PLAUSIBLE came, in fact, from the Latin PLAUSIBILIS, which originally meant worthy of applause, from plausus, which was the past participle of plaudere? Even more intriguing, is that in Portuguese you have PLAUDIR, but no one uses it. But that would be, etymologically speaking (pardon for my ridiculous neologism), the right way to express “aplaudir”, don’t you agree with me?
Resposta:
We’ve noticed that many people make questions as if we knew all about everything. Seeing it by a lighter shade, that’s flattering, don’t you agree?
Thank you for your kind words about our patience, we hope it helps some clients to learn.
You’re correct about PLAUDERE, etc. You know a lot about Etymology; besides, you write Portuguese an English as a native user. You belong to a rare kind.
We almost don’t use plaudir; it’s a synonym of aplaudir and comes from AD, “to”, and PLAUDERE. It’s perfectly correct but fell out of favor in use.