Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or...
by qznc on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @04:47AM
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There is ambiguity. For example, "Masse" and "Maße" are two different words meaning "mass" and "measures". There is a difference, if you drink beer "in Maßen" or "in Massen" (in moderation or en masse).
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Re:The capital sharp S in now part of the official German or...
by pjmlp on Tuesday July 04, 2017 @05:19AM
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They happen to be both "Masse" in that little country with lots of cheese and mountains. :)
However I fully understand the problem, given that one of the "clever" ideas of the latest Portuguese revision was to get rid of a few accents.
So "para" (going, giving to some one) and "pára" (stop doing something) are both "para".
Same for "côr" (color) and "cór" (know something by heart), which are "cor" now.
Or "fato" (suit) and "facto" (fact about something), which became "fato".
Oh and in spite of having been reduced to the same spelling, they kept the original pronunciation when spoken, which adds more fun for the foreigners learning the language.
There are lots of other examples, the goal was to make all Portuguese spelling variants more consistent, but made the language much more context dependent.