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Portuguese to Start Speaking Brazillian?, What's next? British switching to American?
centsworth_II
post May 17 2008, 03:22 PM
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Knowing that there is at least one (esteemed) member of UMSF from Portugal, this news item got my attention:

Brazil Prompts Portugal to Update Portuguese
http://www.tampabay.com/news/bizarre/article510864.ece#

"Under the agreement, which was hotly contested, the spelling
will more closely match the way words are pronounced by removing silent
consonants. Also, the alphabet expands to 26 letters with the introduction
of k, w and y..."

Wow. Changing the alphabet. That sounds pretty radical to me.
"Hotly contested." I'll bet! laugh.gif
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post May 17 2008, 08:16 PM
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And us contrary Americans settled on the middle version of the spelling... It's not that we just fail to pronounce a final "i" in the word, we don't even include it in the spelling of the word!

And who knew, as us humans quibbled over semantics, that this same metal was the primary component of the lunar highlands that shined over our heads at night?

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- centsworth_II   Portuguese to Start Speaking Brazillian?   May 17 2008, 03:22 PM
- - climber   Why do Brasialians need KaWaYs ?   May 17 2008, 04:42 PM
- - djellison   Colour Theatre Metre And I'll throw tea-bags ...   May 17 2008, 04:43 PM
|- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (djellison @ May 17 2008, 05:43 PM)...   May 17 2008, 10:26 PM
|- - ElkGroveDan   QUOTE (djellison @ May 17 2008, 08:43 AM)...   May 18 2008, 01:07 AM
- - dvandorn   Ah, the Americans and the British -- two cultures,...   May 17 2008, 05:37 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (dvandorn @ May 17 2008, 01:37 PM) ...   May 17 2008, 06:40 PM
- - Mongo   My favourite difference in pronunciation: a-LOO-m...   May 17 2008, 07:00 PM
|- - centsworth_II   QUOTE (Mongo @ May 17 2008, 03:00 PM) a-L...   May 17 2008, 07:21 PM
|- - jasedm   QUOTE (Mongo @ May 17 2008, 08:00 PM) My ...   May 20 2008, 01:12 PM
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|- - climber   QUOTE (4th rock from the sun @ May 20 2008, 0...   May 20 2008, 05:59 PM
- - dvandorn   And us contrary Americans settled on the middle ve...   May 17 2008, 08:16 PM
- - Shaka   In 1812 we weren't interested in any damn redc...   May 17 2008, 08:53 PM
- - remcook   I often thing of UK english spelling as a French v...   May 17 2008, 09:21 PM
- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (centsworth_II @ May 17 2008, 04:22...   May 17 2008, 10:29 PM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (Del Palmer @ May 17 2008, 02:29 PM...   May 17 2008, 11:18 PM
- - ElkGroveDan   And while we are on the subject the French guys ca...   May 18 2008, 01:15 AM
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- - Shaka   That's easy: Le Shairrr.   May 18 2008, 05:46 AM
- - Gladstoner   .   May 19 2008, 05:03 AM
- - Stu   "What's next? British speaking American?...   May 19 2008, 05:52 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (Stu @ May 18 2008, 10:52 PM) ...   May 19 2008, 01:30 PM
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|- - ustrax   "Portuguese to Start Speaking Brazillian?...   May 19 2008, 07:50 AM
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|- - ustrax   Eduardo The Portuguese Parliament approved now th...   May 19 2008, 09:32 AM
|- - 4th rock from the sun   Hi, As a native Portuguese speaker, I don't t...   May 19 2008, 10:33 AM
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