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Beds Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary
Interior
HI!
How can you say that a town is not the capital of the state?
I mean, is it common to say something like "I live in XX town, in the interior of the state"?
I live in a town in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Here, we often use the word 'interior' to distinguish easily São Paulo, the capital, from any other location within the state. So we say something like "I live in Pardinho, São Paulo's interior" and so on.
I never heard anything like that and i really try to pull this out of my conversation (just saying the name of the town and get done with it), but it is a strong habit and keeps coming to me when the subject is my hometown or something.
Does that make sense to any of you?
Thank you.
How can you say that a town is not the capital of the state?
I mean, is it common to say something like "I live in XX town, in the interior of the state"?
I live in a town in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. Here, we often use the word 'interior' to distinguish easily São Paulo, the capital, from any other location within the state. So we say something like "I live in Pardinho, São Paulo's interior" and so on.
I never heard anything like that and i really try to pull this out of my conversation (just saying the name of the town and get done with it), but it is a strong habit and keeps coming to me when the subject is my hometown or something.
Does that make sense to any of you?
Thank you.
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In the US, I wouldn't speak of the interior of a state. " Of course, we don't have any state whose capital has the same name as it, but even if we did, the format would suffice to keep it straight. "
- In the US, I wouldn't speak of the interior of a state.
- " Of course, we don't have any state whose capital has the same name as it, but even if we did, the format would suffice to keep it straight.
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In the US, I wouldn't speak of the interior of a state. Just saying the name of the state after the name of the town gets us there: "I live in Poughkeepsie, New York." Of course, we don't have any state whose capital has the same name as it, but even if we did, the format would suffice to keep it straight. If I were you, I would say, "I live in Pardinho, São Paulo." or "I live in Pardinho, São Pau
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