Thank You Hardy Buddy
It looks like Lorenzo is going to have to get a job. I read that a lot of fruit is transported up and down the Amazon River. Him and his two friends, Rosario and Mierrta might be able to work on a boat hauling fruit?
Your reply was very helpful in deciding where my story should go. I would put more about the story here, but publishers have funny ideas about electronic publishing rights.
'Quanto quer pelo barco?' is what I was looking for. I figure it's like in English there is the proper way to say something and then there is the way people really talk. If someone uses prefect English we know they're a foreigner or they're putting on airs.
How much would an old boat that could haul fruit cost? Mierrta is from Brazil so she speaks Portuguese. So the way I am using Portuguese in the book is she sometimes slips in to her native tongue. But, more importantly she uses the Brazilian slang unintentionally when she talks with Lorenzo. After using the slang she then needs to explain it giving the reader an idea of how a Brazilian might actually talk. This is why I am doing this research. I wouldn’t want to say something completely wrong.
Lorenzo and Mierrta have a thing going. So I'm looking for things for her to say that tells the reader how she feels about Lorenzo. These snippets of conversation will also be in English with Brazilian slang. People in love have pet names for each other.
Occasionally Mierrta speaks entirely in Portuguese. Mierrta is patterned after a real person, but the Mierrta I knew was Cuban.
Also you mentioned people who don't live in cities don't care about money. I guess to do business with them you might barter for goods and services? Do you know much about how the people along the river live? Do they have special words for people who don't live on the river? What do they call foreigners?
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