the people of rio are very playful and adaptive with language, continually adding and altering the way they articulate themselves, with unique phrases and expressions to convey meaning in a richer way - 'carioquês' is the unique dialect of portuguese used in rio de janeiro, as well as espirito santo, and it is usually characterized by a few key features.

cariocas tend to elongate words to give them greater emphasis and panache - the word 'esperto', meaning 'smart' or 'expert', can take a good two seconds to complete - they will also tend to punctuate their sentences with extraneous content, such as the word 'mehmao' - a typically carioca merging of the words 'meu', meaning 'my', and 'irmao', meaning 'brother'.