Which, incidentally, is almost certainly where the usage in Ender's Game comes from. The author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card http://en.wikipe

Which, incidentally, is almost certainly where the usage in Ender's Game comes from. The author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card) spent two years in Brazil on a religious mission, and there's multiple other Portuguese references in that book. (This influence is even stronger in "Ender's Game"'s sequel, "Speaker for the Dead")