How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book

Re:How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book by alwaysLrng27 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @05:01PM (#24002812)

Amazing job. I think your portuguese cover/book title needs work if you plan to publish/sell in the brazilian market.

It has a typo and doesn't sound natural.

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Re:How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book by kentosi on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:55PM (#24004558)

> It has a typo and doesn't sound natural.

What's the typo and why doesn't it sound natural?

If it's about the "porque" then please keep this in mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUYzlYg_axo

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Re:How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book by nunorbatista on Friday July 31, 2020 @04:17AM (#24006751)

Portuguese here: there's no error, it's fine.

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Re:How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book by pc86 on Friday July 31, 2020 @06:54PM (#24015204)

Brazilian market.

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Re:How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book by soneca on Thursday July 30, 2020 @06:37PM (#24003596)

Adding to that, let me offer a suggestion on how it could be improved:

Original: ”Porque continua a mandar os seus filhos para a escola?”

Grammatically correct: ”Por que continua a mandar os seus filhos para a escola?”

More naturally sound: ”Por que você continua a mandar seus filhos para a escola?”

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Re:How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book by soneca on Thursday July 30, 2020 @09:03PM (#24004595)

update of comment above: I just learned from kentosi comment that "Porque" without a space in a question is gramatically correct if you are using portuguese from Portugal. So, consider that I made my suggestions in Brazilian Portuguese.

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Re:How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book by pteraspidomorph on Thursday July 30, 2020 @08:50PM (#24004521)

It's fine standard portuguese.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/porque#Adverb

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Re:How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book by pc86 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:05AM (#24020498)

Brazil doesn't speak "standard portuguese" (whatever that is).

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Re:How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book by christopoulos on Thursday July 30, 2020 @06:18PM (#24003462)

See, this is where you could go the extra mile and actually tell the author exactly what word it is. Do you do this at your work as well?

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Re:How I wrote, crowdfunded, and independently published a book by Falling3 on Thursday July 30, 2020 @06:33PM (#24003572)

That went from constructive criticism to unnecessary personal attack in record time.

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