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Re:Upcoming changes to Cortana by mrweasel on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:33AM (#24018786)
European Portuguese? Does that mean they support Brazilian Portuguese better that actual Portuguese?
Re:Upcoming changes to Cortana by pjmlp on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:45AM (#24019145)
Probably, if they support Portuguese at all.

That is a pet peeve that we have back home, because of market size, many US companies rather support Brazilian Portuguese than any of other variants.

European Portuguese gets left out due to market size, while African and Asian Portuguese get left out due to buying capabilites.

Thing is, having to speak to a device, in another language variant just feels weird, leaving out the little detail that one does need to learn the differences as well.

Re:Upcoming changes to Cortana by viraptor on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:37AM (#24020006)
TIL about Luso-Asians and Luso-Indians https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luso-Asians
Re:Upcoming changes to Cortana by carlob on Saturday August 01, 2020 @09:12AM (#24020196)
> actual Portuguese

would you consider British English the only actual English?

Not only Brazil has 20 times the population of Portugal, but there are considerations to be made about how languages evolve in the periphery, which might not apply to Portuguese, but certainly apply to Canadian French vs French French.

Re:Upcoming changes to Cortana by pjmlp on Saturday August 01, 2020 @03:13PM (#24023099)
No and many English variants suffer the same problems of US English first.