26 Oct 2026
In 1697 a bishop met one of the most famous men in colonial Brazil, and the man turned up with an interpreter. He was a Portuguese colonist, and he couldn’t speak Portuguese properly.
For well over a century, a lot of Brazil’s colonists grew up speaking língua geral, a language built from Tupi. It was the home language around São Paulo, and in the Amazon it was more widely spoken than Portuguese until the late 1800s. In this one I look at how that happened, how the bandeirantes who spoke it pushed Brazil far past the Tordesillas line, and what it took for Portuguese to win in the end: a gold rush, a ban, a brutal war and the rubber boom.
It’s still spoken today, too. It’s called Nheengatu, and in 2023 Brazil’s Constitution was translated into it.
This is the third in my series on colonial languages, after the Philippines and Indonesia.
Which country should I do next? Let me know in the comments.
0:00 Intro
1:04 A line on the map
2:05 Hardly any Portuguese
3:06 The priests learn Tupi
4:07 Spoken at home
5:21 The bandeirantes
6:29 Gold
7:12 The ban
8:05 The Amazon holds out
9:19 Still spoken
10:32 So why Portuguese?
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Mar 2026
Who has more freedom of speech? Britain or America?
Vlog channel / evanedinger
Thank you so much for watching! Hope you enjoyed it!
Video Chapters:
0:00 Hook & Intro
1:40 What speech is protected
3:34 Has Britain really arrested 12,183 people for tweets?
6:25 What online posts get people arrested in Britain?
9:30 Does the US arrest people for online posts?
10:37 Is this really a free speech hero?
11:26 Where freedom of speech laws fail in Britain
14:43 Where freedom of speech laws fail in America
16:54 How each country sees free speech
19:46 Conclusion
23:25 Outro
If you’re new to my channel and videos, hi! I’m Evan Edinger, and I make weekly “comedy” videos every Sunday evening. As an American living in London I love noticing the funny differences between the cultures and one of my most popular video series is my British VS American one. I’m also known for making terrible puns so sorry in advance. Hope to see you around, and I’ll see you next Sunday! 🙂
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By Sara Barnes on October 5, 2026
Paint and thread have more in common than you might think. Beyond the fact that one is wet and the other dry, a brushstroke is surprisingly similar to a stitch. On their own, the individual marks may not mean much, but together they create works of art. Textile artist Kathrin Marchenko highlights their easy kinship in her stunning embroidery titled Beyond the Bridge, which reimagines the spirit of a Claude Monet painting in thread on framed tulle.
Marchenko’s Beyond the Bridge showcases an idyllic scene of water lilies beneath a curved passageway, referencing Monet’s Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies. The piece is a monumental size, measuring 110 × 280 centimeters (3.6 x 9.2 feet). “I built the image through many layers of color and stitch, using wool and mohair threads in a wide range of blues, greens, turquoise, violet, and warmer highlights,” the artist explains to My Modern Met.
“I was particularly interested in the softness and dimensional quality of these fibers,” she continues, “they catch the light differently and give the surface an almost atmospheric, painterly quality. The direction and density of the stitches were especially important to me, they allow the surface to shift depending on the light and the viewer’s position, almost like reflections moving across water.”
While there is an obvious connection to Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, Marchenko chose to lean into the spirit of the original rather than copy it directly. “When translating the atmosphere of Monet into embroidery, I wasn’t interested in reproducing the painting stitch by stitch,” Marchenko says. “I wanted to preserve the feeling of light, movement, reflection, and the almost dreamlike quality of the landscape, while allowing the thread itself to create a completely different surface and visual language.” […]
Source: https://mymodernmet.com/kathrin-marchenko-beyond-the-bridge-monet/
