Thursday, September 9, 2010

PT - Maconha - Marijuana

Headline on Veja.com, a Brazilian weekly magazine:

Filha de peixe

Filha de Bob Marley confessa ter plantado maconha em casa


Like Father, Like Daughter (literally: Daughter of a fish)
Daughter of Bob Marley Confesses to Growing Marijuana at Home

Not much to say here. The reason I posted this is to discuss the Idiom used as part of the headline. "Filha de peixe" is a play on the usual phrase "Filho de peixe, peixinho é", or "The son/child of a fish, is a fish". We say "like father, like son". Thus, for today's headline they modified the usual male gendered noun to the appropriate female gendered noun. Certainly this made the news in the States as well, but what kind of news was it really.

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