[pt] Rule: Certo → Exato

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Hello @rjlima

I have implemented this nice rule that suggests replacing “certo” with “exato”:

However, there are many false positives since there isn’t a good way of checking if the nouns are valid.

All I have done was to see the results and try to remove the most common incorrect ones.

See the before and after .txt in the GitHub commit.

Basically, the logic is:

A equação exata.
O modelo exato.

So, I have removed as many words as possible.

The other way would be to only accept valid words, such as “equações”, “modelos”, etc. but I will miss most of them.

Unless you can create a list of these words to use with “exato”, but it must give too much work.

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Those cases (and many more like them)

Pois este é o jogo certo para o seu N64!
O Gearbest é o lugar certo, realizamos promoções semanais, como venda em flash ou oferta de pechincha para membros vip, na qua…
Quer rodem para a direita, quer rodem para a esquerda, o automóvel certo está no “Pisca Pisca”.

use ‘certo’ as a word to emphasize something to convince the reader, and, in Brazilian Portuguese, the use of ‘exato’ doesn’t have the same effect, far from it.

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@rjlima

“A tabela dá-nos a quantia exata do IVA.”

Is it not good in pt-BR?

I will remove the rule at 5am then.

Thanks!

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This is ok. Note that this refers to a quantity, however when we say ‘ela é a pessoa certa para você’, maybe because it is an entity, ‘exata’ does not fit.

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I will to add some words to “exato”, but it will take some time.

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@rjlima

What about now?:

Notice the:

ciência|compreensão|contagem|correspondência|formulação|localização|medida|percentagem|posição|quantia|quantidade|quantitativa|soma|subtração|valor

The “inflected” means that the words derivate also to gender/plural/singular.

Can you think of any other words we could add here?

Thanks!

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My guess is that anything that can be measured is ok to change certo to exato. So? momento, lugar, hora, espaço, etc
But note that even a word like posição might not be able for the change:
Qual é a posição certa para se sentar enquanto trabalha?
Qual é a posição exata para se sentar enquanto trabalha?
The second doesn’t look the same as the first for me, does it for you?

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You are right, the second doesn’t look like it.

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at 5am I will improve the rule.

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ahhh…

With a bit delay, but here it is: