Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak...
by myohmy on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:07PM
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Honestly we need the same for English.
Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak...
by henvic on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:21PM
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No. Just let the language naturally evolve. This "agreement" was an awful thing forced down by political forces.
Context: I'm Brazilian and during high school I studied Portuguese "one official version behind". It had more rules, but the language itself was way nicer, and people used to write more close to it, than nowadays.
It's better to have a few mistakes due to some archaic rules than to force everything to be sterile and complicate how you pronounce things IMHO
Just let people evolve the language naturally instead...
Re:Nonnative English speakers share their gripes about speak...
by pessimizer on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:10PM
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No, our orthography is terrible. We should let it slip towards rationality in any of the tiny ways it tries.
The meaning is the same, both in Brazil and in Portugal.
As a curiosity the two countries (along with others) are part of the Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 [1] whose purpose was to create a unified orthography for the Portuguese language, to be used by all the countries that have Portuguese as their official language.
Nonetheless there is a lot of differences in usage, mostly regarding the "popular" vocabulary. Some heavily used words in one country are less frequently used in the other. There's also a noticeable difference in the accent.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Language_Orthograph...