It’s been a while since I posted any of those “Key Learnings” from lessons and I should probably do it more to give my crap memory a bit of a nudge to do its job. So here are couple of things I picked up from today’s Aula. They’re both really close near-cognates with subtly different meanings:
Consensual
This word looks like a straight-up cognate but it’s diverged slightly from the english meaning and stayed closer to “consensus” than “consent”.
É consensual no meio cientifica nao haver o direito de modificar o patrimonio hereditário da espécie humana.
…means something like “It’s agreed by everyone in the field of science that we don’t have the right to modify the human genetic heritage”
Presentear
This word obviously comes from the same root as the verb “to present” but it isn’t used in the positive sense – presenting people with gifts or medals, for example, only ironically in negative situations.
O objectivo é conseguir substâncias capazes de corrigir os efeitos com que a natureza vai presenteado os homens
…means something like “The objective is to find substances that can correct the symptoms with which nature has presented people”
Luso 