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Quais dicionários de português (brasileiro) são confiáveis?
Eu recomendo o Houaiss. Eu tenho a edição portuguesa (2002) que é a edição brasileira de 2001 com umas adaptaçõezinhas na grafia, colocação pronominal e pouco mais. É um dicionário muito completo—3800 ...
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Full clarity or political correctness?
Political correctness needn’t enter into it. On a language site, the use–mention distinction is an important one to make. Because our discussions center around language itself, it is perfectly fine to ...
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Are the tags "origem-histórica", "origem", and "etimologia" synonyms?
Parece-me que não exatamente a mesma coisa. "Etimologia" está mais ligado aos étimos da palavra (outras palavras ou componentes que são a base da palavra em questão), enquanto "origem histórica" pode ...
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Resources for etymological research―Recursos para investigação etimológica
Oh! what a phantabulastic idea! Pure genius! I’ll get ahead with it straight away. I’ll write the substantive answer in Portuguese only for the time being. I reckon anyone interested in this type of ...
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Portuguese Language não é um site de língua portuguesa?
Podes verificar na ajuda do site que a ideia é poderes perguntar nas duas línguas, mas sugere-se que se pergunte e responda em português.
No meta, tanto quanto sei deve-se escrever em inglês para ...
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Estamos abertos a qualquer tipo de pergunta que verse sobre a língua portuguesa?
Julgar perguntas que enriquecem ou não o site com base em opiniões pessoais só leva à discriminação. A origem do uai é mais relevante, imo, do que a origem de malhação e eu não vi ninguém se opor ...
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Ideas to improve the site
Since this site is intended for
linguists, teachers, and learners wanting to discuss the finer points of the Portuguese language,
and apparently most of the users are neither teachers nor ...
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Let's try to keep conversational comments to a minimum
It never hurts to remember that comments should be made to help in the perception of questions/answers, and not to hold a conversation.
If you erase the comment later, then it is not harmful.
But if ...
Jorge B.Mod
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Full clarity or political correctness?
tl;dr - use whatever you prefer; but I think clarity and straight-forwardness are preferable to political correctness.
My opinion more often counters political correctness than it favours it.
In ...
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Are the tags "origem-histórica", "origem", and "etimologia" synonyms?
It is my understanding that the term “etymology” properly applies only to individual words alone. Priberam has for etimologia:
e·ti·mo·lo·gi·a
(latim etymologia, -ae, do grego etumología, -as)...
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About answers that just add to other answers
I think it doesn't matter.
If an answer is useful, it is useful regardless of whether it answers the whole question or not.
If it is not useful, it is not useful regardless (etc).
I believe that the ...
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Perguntas do tipo, "será que existe uma palavra portuguesa assim?"
Sim, eu acho que sim.
Acho que este formato de perguntas é claramente on-topic:
Existe alguma palavra para dizer que algo está mal construído devido a falta de empenho?
Procuro um adjetivo, palavra ...
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Are questions that can easily be answered by any dictionary considered off-topic?
Vote early, vote often
(I'm somewhat impartial to the case at hand, probably because I as a beginner, can't quite judge what questions are "easy", but...)
There's something we can (must!) do: vote ...
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Shouldn't the questions and accepted answers parallel each other in votes?
No, they shouldn't. We can have a excellent answer in an ordinary question and vice versa. The accepted answer may not be the best answer. The accepted answer is the answer that helps the OP to ...
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Is this question too broad?
In my view this question is not ok for this site for several reasons. The main one is that it does not ask about a particular issue. Here’s an example of what a legitimate question inspired in one ...
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Good practice in posts that just copy-paste other sites
The attribution must be done when copying, and it should be very visible.
Copied text should not seem to be original work.
When the text is copied, it should be in a quote block:
[copied text]
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Is asking to translate a short paragraph from English to Portuguese on topic here?
No, translation requests are not on-topic.
If you try to translate them yourself and want help with corrections or improvements on that work, I think that might be on-topic too.
I would accept it, but ...
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Are questions about Mirandês on-topic?
I would always wish for our community to be inclusive where possible. But I honestly don’t know that Mirandês is a good match for us. We could always try and see how it works out. It could be an ...
tchristMod
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Let’s choose more informative tags than “grammar” whenever possible
Allow me to disagree. Gramatica is a good tag, even though it is broad.
First, sites need to have both broad and narrow tags. As this highly voted answer on Meta explains, broad tags are useful ...
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Should we allow reference questions on main?
In my opinion the reference questions should be:
On the main site;
Community Wiki;
And possibly locked.
Like this example in german.SE: Resources for learning German.
Community Wiki
References ...
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How is "questions per day" calculated?
After following the link provided on Jorge B.'s answer I came across this official answer(asked on Meta.ServerFault SE). It states that:
Questions per day = (# of new questions over last 14 days) / ...
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Is this recent question about job post semantics on-topic?
Well, the question expects an answer coming from the Portuguese language, but in reality, the answer would come more from the country's work laws and/or culture. In Brazil, the payment can be monthly, ...
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Precisamos melhorar
PT
Estamos a melhorar de dia para dia, as perguntas vão aparecendo, as visitas também, por isso tentem divulgar o site o mais que possam. Se as pessoas se habituarem a vir cá perguntar sobre o ...
Jorge B.Mod
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Length of answers
If an answer is repetitive or rambles away from the point, then it is definitely too long, and is generally a bad answer.
But then you can have good answers of different lengths to the same question. ...
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Should grammatical errors in the examples of a question be corrected?
I think we have to use discretion, and act on a case by case basis.
In this particular case I see no problem correcting levar-los to levá-los or os levar because it has no bearing on the matter ...
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Estamos abertos a qualquer tipo de pergunta que verse sobre a língua portuguesa?
Centaurus, o que eu quis dizer é que o facto de estar no google não é motivo suficiente para fechar uma pergunta.
O facto de a pergunta poder parecer ridícula, não quer dizer que ela seja, há muita ...
Jorge B.Mod
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Is there an European Portuguese free online dictionary that includes pronunciation?
Yes. There is Linguee, which has many bilingual dictionaries and offers both Brazilian and European Portuguese audios.
For instance, for "olá".
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Sites com separação silábica e sílaba tónica
Não acho uma lista completa para a tonicidade, mas alguns dicionários são recursos úteis. Por exemplo, a Infopédia mostra a separação na translineação, e a tonicidade na fonética (com uma plica, ' , ...
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Bounty on my question
Our active community is not big and at times rather quiet. Chat rooms often remain empty or quickly go silent. Please don't let that dishearten you. Most questions are answered.
I had upvoted your ...
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