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PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2009 10:56 am 
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há alguns sites brazileiros que tem topazio imperial em bruto. se puder arranjar fotografias dessas pedras e postar era bom, acho k o site da duarte e bastos tem. :)


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Sorry Pedro,
this is an english language forum, translate, plz.
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Alberto wrote:
Sorry Pedro,
this is an english language forum, translate, plz.
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lol sorry

i said that´s some brazilian sites who have pictures of imperial topaz rough and cut as well.i thoght d&b have some fotos
i said to gringa perdida if she can to take fotos from there ot those sites.


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I basically replied to Pedro that I have not seen photos of the better quality crystals and that the site of Duarte & Bastos is being upgraded.


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Gringa Perdida wrote:
Querido Pedro,

Olá! Tudo bem?

Eu nunca vi fotos dos cristais de topázios imperiais exeto aquelas de qualidade inferior. A firma de Duarte & Bastos está atualizando o site deles.
Quando tenho mais informações, eu colocar aqui pra você. Por favor, desculpe me minha inhabilidade de escrever em português melhor.

Abraços!


beter write in english gringa :D or alberto mock our head :wink:

no problem i understand your portuguese very well :)

i saw some sites who had imperial topaz for sale, and realy nice ones. some sparkling and well saturated brownish oranges between other colors, more lighter colors and darker ones more like orange red, not like garnets of course. but very nice colors i will try to find sites again :)
after if i find i post here some llinks :)


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Hi, Pedro, thanks,

Brown is not a desirable color, but is often seen in common topaz that has been irradiated.

Still, some of those irradiated stones were really pretty. If they could find a way to keep them from fading, they could charge more for them.


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Pedro wrote:
beter write in english gringa :D or alberto mock our head :wink:


Hey Pedro,
i would write in Italian all my posts, no idea of what other people would understand though... :wink:
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Alberto wrote:
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beter write in english gringa :D or alberto mock our head :wink:


Hey Pedro,
i would write in Italian all my posts, no idea of what other people would understand though... :wink:
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eheheh
maybe i understand :wink: with some work i can understund at least the meaning of what is said in italian, already assisted 2 conferences with italian professors :)
written perhps i understund even beter
portuguese and italian isn´t so diferent both are latin languages.
well romanian is more dificult lol.
k i write english no problem :P


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I can muddle through Italian and a few other Romance languages... but not very well. If you give me a few minutes with a sentence, I can often get about half the words and meanings. ;)

That's what I get for taking Latin in high school. On the plus side, all the scientific names of plants and animals make sense to me!! :)


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i didn´t had latin ,i wanted but not enough m8´s to open class :(
romance was talked by portuguese and arabian ,berberes(north africa),moçarabes and other countless people who came from orient. lol one language who made diferent people understand each other. i don´t know if we are talking about the same romance but.. it´s funny if someone today talks it :D


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In linguistic terms, a "Romance" language is any language that is derived from Latin.

Wikipedia article on Romance languages in Portueguese


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I am not sure, but it is possible that Pedro was referring to Romani, the language spoken by gypsies.


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:) robert b,
as an alternative stone for imperial stone, how 'bout yellowish orange hessonite garnet?? imperial topaz is a magnificent gemstone, and very expensive and for a fraction of the cost of an imperial topaz are the grossular/hessonite garnet from the jeffrey mine in quebec and from sri lanka. hessonite does not usually receive any treatment either. (from what we have shared on hessonite and garnet treatment on the forum lately, i'll say "not usually treated" to keep clear of arrows)

here's two hessonite from the famous jeffrey mine cut by our fellow forum members
pt's hessonite:
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roger dery's hessonite:
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donna and john rhoad's (djrarestones) hessonite from sri lanka:
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pedro-
can you speak pig latin? :wink: i learned quite a bit from medical terminology classes, which is derived from latin and greek. learned french in highschool and learned a little bit as well as some curse words in french. don't remember much of it all now-that was 25 years ago this year. lol!!


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Perhaps. Interesting language, Romani... it's an Indo-Aryan language, so related to all the Romance languages at the level of Indo-European, but not descended from Latin.

Linguistics is fascinating, I nearly minored in it at college.


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i see it´s just a matter of traduction.english traducing from romanic or latin language is romance. but i think the romance was a language used in past and not latin . but a moisture of catolic language arabian and moçarabe people,(the true heirs of visigotic(germanic origin people) and roman empire, they lived under influence of arabian and they always mantained his faith and costumes) , who all understunded.peninsula always had a lot of influences.
see a lot of influences the romance they all understunded, but all have theyr own language. of course there was a lot of distorcions in each other main languages, they lived and died toghether.they influenced each other.


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