I saw a HP-48SX at flea market and I couldn't resist.

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(05-22-2014 02:44 PM)walter b Wrote:  (...) Sometimes I'm guessing a bit, and genders in Portuguese ... And Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese show quite some overlap which is no wonder looking at their histories.

d:-)

True.
Once my wife travelled to Milan and she tried to use English in the shops an restaurants, but as no one seems to acknowledge, she tried Portuguese... and surprise, surprise communication was possible!
I have the same experience when I travel to Spain to run VMware courses there. English is the official language but after a while I switch to "portunhol" (it is a joke we Iberians do by combining the words Português and Espanhol) where I use Portuguese but with Spanish accent and believe it or not, they follow me. Of course they do the same the other way around by speaking "espanholês"