My mom taught me this. Since it's significantly different from other versions I've found online, I decided to "publish" it right here:

It almost certainly refers to Ruy Barbosa, who had a legendary intellect.

"Barbosa foi ao barbeiro"
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Will a cognitive linguist criticize this, please?

Abstract:
Some dialectal features can be viewed as production rules. Individuals in certain areas tend to have these production rules, while outsiders don't. This account also explains second-language hypercorrection effects.

Paper:
to be written
German
/haus/ ("Haus") -plural-> /heuzer/ ("Häuser ( Read more... )