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name: content-locale-humanize-pt

title: "Portuguese Native-Fluency Calibration"

description: "Per-language calibration anchors for detecting AI-slop and translationese in Portuguese (pt) target text; auto-loads alongside content-locale-humanize when the target language is Portuguese."

license: Apache-2.0

- compatibility: "Extends content-locale-humanize's AI-Slop & Translationese dimension. Load both together — this file has no rubric of its own."

+ compatibility: "Calibration data only; no tools required. Network access helps for usage checks."

domains: content

rules:

- content(portuguese)

- match(\bpt-(BR|PT)\b)

- match(\bPortuguese\b)

- match(português)

- semantic(check if this Portuguese translation sounds native)

- semantic(eliminate translationese from this Portuguese text)

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## Overview

- Sourced calibration anchors for Portuguese, feeding `content-locale-humanize`'s AI-Slop & Translationese dimension. This is a calibration aid, not the checklist — reason natively beyond it (see the core skill's "why structure, not word lists" section).

+ Calibration anchors and current norms for Portuguese (pt-BR, pt-PT), feeding content-locale-humanize's dimensions. A calibration aid, not the checklist; reason natively beyond it.

- ## Instructions

+ ## Rules

- Sourcing confidence: moderate — listicle-level convergence (multiple independent sites), not corpus research.

+ ### AI tells

- Overused words: crucial, jornada (calque of English AI-cliché "journey" as a metaphor, not literal travel).

+ Sourcing confidence: moderate; listicle-level convergence across independent sites, not corpus research.

- Watch for the same connector-pileup and stock-opener patterns documented for Spanish and French — Portuguese AI output leans on the same "além disso"-class transitions. Distinguish pt-BR from pt-PT register and vocabulary; don't apply European Portuguese conventions to a Brazilian-audience piece or vice versa.

+ - Overused words: crucial, jornada (calque of the English AI metaphor "journey").

+ - The same connector and opener patterns as Spanish and French: "além disso", "vale ressaltar", "é importante destacar", "em suma".

+ ### Translationese from English

+ - pt-BR gerundismo ("vou estar enviando" for "will be sending"; use "vou enviar").

+ - False friends: "aplicar para uma vaga" (candidatar-se), "realizar" for perceber, "eventualmente" meaning finally, "suportar" for ser compatível com.

+ - Possessive overuse ("seu/sua" everywhere), "foi feito por" passives, Title Case headings.

+ ### Current norms

+ - Never mix variants. pt-BR: você, "estou fazendo", celular, tela, usuário, arquivo, “…”. pt-PT: tu or você by register, "estou a fazer", telemóvel, ecrã, utilizador, ficheiro, «…».

+ - Spelling follows the 1990 Orthographic Agreement, mandatory in Brazil and Portugal; residual differences remain (pt-BR "fato", pt-PT "facto").

## References

- humanizartextos.com, gowinston.ai.

+ Reviewed 2026-10-12. AI tells: humanizartextos.com, gowinston.ai. Norms: Vocabulário Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa (ABL; Instituto de Lexicologia e Lexicografia da Língua Portuguesa).