Jeroen wrote:
> I thought "beautiful" and "brazilian guys" were mutually exclusive.
Alberto replied:
Yes and no. By dictionary definition (dictionary.com),[in fact, it's "beautiful" and "guys" that are mutually exclusive, by definition of beautiful. At leat it was so when I learned English, more than a quarter of a century ago]
beautiful simply means :
1.Having qualities that delight the senses, especially
the sense of sight.
2.Excellent; wonderful.
By common usage, men usually refer to women as
beautiful and women usually refer to men as handsome,
but that's not a strict rule. Typically, in my
experience, the more conservative one is, and the
older one is, the more unlikely one is to use the
word beautiful in reference to a man.
YMMV, of course.
Reggie Bautista
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