The World-Famous Carioca Consonant-Less Phrase is:
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"ih! o' o aue^ ai', o'!"

(where the "h" is silent and the "i'" and "o'" represent acute accented
vowels)

This expression is used as a mixture of surprise and outrage. For example,
a common situation would be when a bunch of paraffin-blonded surfers 
arrives at their favourite beach spot and find it occupied by another
bunch of paraffin-blonded surfers:

Indignant Paraffin-Blonded Surfer (to gang): "ih! o' o aue ai' o'!"

Breaking it down:
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"ih!"		sort of like "hey!"

"o'" (1)	contraction of "olha!", meaning "look!"

"o aue^"	uknown origin. Means, approximately, "the mess", "the
		confusion", "that which is happening"... sort of very
		generic. See also "trem", "zona" (other regionalisms).

"ai'"		"there", "over there"

"o'" (2)	also a contraction of "olha!", but in this case just 
		augments the "ai'" to indicate where "o aue^" is taking
		place.


Other examples of possible situations where it would be appropriate to 
use the World-Famous Carioca Consonant-Less Phrase:

* someone sneaks into a queue in front of you
* someone steals your drink/girl/surfboard
* the referee make a dubious call in some ballgame

well, and so on. Now you too can be understood in Rio.

Hope it was worth the wait... :-)

-- 
Anthony Gerarde Alves Stanton                       stanton@yoyo.org    
Computer Engineer At Large              http://www.yoyo.org/~stanton
      "All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental."
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