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Thursday June 03, 2004

06:25 AM

[ #19068 ]

I can't tell whether this is a good or a bad thing, but I thought I should mention it :-)

If you're looking at an example of what I consider to be "Desenrascanço", I guess this is it...

However, I don't think this is an only-Portuguese characteristic... right? :-\

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cargo culting (Score:1)

by slanning (5049)

I think we call it cargo-culting in Perl. :)
Desenrascanço in English (Score:2)

by TorgoX (1933)

More near-misses for "desenrascanço" in English: "muddling through", "improvisation", "making do".