Weksa/data/target-language-ontology/pt-BR.yaml
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profile_id: weksa.target_cultural_ontology.pt-BR.v0
language:
code: pt
locale: pt-BR
script: Latn
scope: >
Bounded Brazilian Portuguese dialogue lowering profile. This profile is the
base Brazilian Portuguese target; regional, class, religious, and community
registers should be added as explicit overlays rather than silently folded
into generic pt-BR.
authority:
owns:
- Brazilian Portuguese lexical preference
- treatment and address choices
- directness versus mitigation
- regional_or_cultural_overlay_selection
- idiom naturalness for reviewed fixture prose
does_not_own:
- source meaning
- Brazilian culture as a whole
- regional or religious-community authority without an explicit overlay
- target speaker identity
salience_axes:
treatment:
relevant_distinctions:
- voce
- tu_regionally_marked
- o_senhor_a_senhora
- name_or_title_address
lowering_questions:
- Is the relationship close, hostile, hierarchical, unknown, or sacred?
- Does `voce` preserve broad Brazilian naturalness better than `tu`?
- Is `tu` regionally grounded or just imported flavor?
directness:
relevant_distinctions:
- bare imperative
- softened imperative
- warning framed as consequence
- formal warning
lowering_questions:
- Does urgency justify blunt imperative force?
- Would mitigation make the warning dishonest?
lexical_locale:
relevant_distinctions:
- Brazilian Portuguese terms should be preferred in reviewed pt-BR fixtures
- European Portuguese defaults must be marked if intentionally used
lowering_questions:
- Is a term recognizably Brazilian Portuguese in this context?
- Is a literal technical word natural enough for dialogue?
regional_and_cultural_overlay:
relevant_distinctions:
- broad_brazilian_default
- regional_speech_pattern
- class_or_institutional_register
- religious_or_ritual_register
- community_specific_lexicon
lowering_questions:
- Does the source context justify an overlay?
- Is the overlay owned by a named profile?
- Would applying the overlay stereotype the speaker or setting?
metaphor:
relevant_distinctions:
- technical metaphors can preserve character ontology
- over-literal metaphors may sound translated rather than spoken
lowering_questions:
- Does the metaphor still sound like the speaker?
- Does it preserve the warning instead of becoming decorative?
forbidden_flattenings:
- Do not label output as Portuguese without a locale in reviewed fixtures.
- Do not default to European Portuguese wording when the target is pt-BR.
- Do not treat Brazilian Portuguese as one culture, region, class, or religion.
- Do not add regional or religious markers without a cited overlay profile and source-context reason.
- Do not soften a warning merely because directness feels impolite in English review.
overlay_catalog: data/target-language-ontology/pt-BR-overlays.yaml