Reg, G4FGQ wrote:
"---students, even at that tender age, should be endowed with a
first-class honors degree, including cap and gown---"

Ha ratos com toda a certeza nas "favelas" de Rio, mas nao somente nos
esgotos, e tambem, nao tengo certeza que os estudantes se usem beretes e
capas para mostrar seus elevacoes de grau.

It`s been more than 50 years since my 2 weeks of Berlitz instruction in
spoken Portuguese, and I`m out of practice and don`t have a dictionary
handy but this is what I tried to write above:

It is certain that there are rats in the "bean shacks" of Rio, but not
only in the sewers, and also, I am not certain that the students use
caps and gowns to show their advancements in grade.

My grammer may be fractured and my spelling may be poor, but I`ve lived
in Lisbon though long ago, and I`ve been to Rio. I think a resident of
Rio could decipher what I`ve written. I could more easily write it it in
Spanish, which we hear in Texas every day, but it`s different from
Portuguese. It`s over 3 months since I was in England, so I`m not so
sure I`m doing so well in English either. Spanglish is often spoken
here.

Best regards, Richard Harrison, KB5WZI