John, Not a bad article. I'm not a linguist, so I can't do a knowledgeable evaluation, but again from the little that I know about he subject it looks pretty good. I only stumbled on "The adoption of the new orthography will cause changes in the spelling of about 1.6% of the words in the European norm (official also in Africa, Asia and Oceania) and about 0.5% in the Brazilian norm." Not sure those figures are accurate. It omits some very important historic facts, but that much is recognized by the label on top. It still presents the "correct" POV, but that is old news.
I also have a visceral dislike for stuff like "European norm," not to mention "European Portuguese." I have written about that elsewhere (http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Vapmachado/Portuguese_language_issues) but that is NOT why I'm blocked on Meta. They don't block people there for serious stuff like that. Now our dear correspondent Mark as stated that "it may not yet be used in schools." "May"? Do you really have any doubts? You are at a huge disadvantage. You see, schools are my line of business and have been for 56 years. Joined at 4 and have not left yet. My children are still attending school, and I've already paid a visit to the elementary school right next to me, about this matter. So let me make your dubious (I wonder why...) statement to something more precise: It is NOT used in schools. Before signing off, and before I forget, let me ask another trivial question. It has been a long, long time since you have opened a grammar of any language, hasn't it? That's an easy guess, considering what a grammar is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammar) and that the differences between Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese of Portugal go way beyond differences in orthography. You'll find a lot of good links here: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vapmachado/Portuguese_language_issues, particularly this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Portuguese#Grammar I think you'll be just treading water, and will not get anywhere this way. Why not try: Let's not feed the trolls, and ignore me, has you guys use to do, when you don't get right down uncivil? Sincerely, Virgilio A. P. Machado (Vapamachado) An harmless guy who had this idea that Wikipedia was a great thing for his students, and paid dearly for it. At 01:55 07-12-2010, you wrote: >On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:21 PM, M. Williamson <[email protected]> wrote: > >.. > > As far as I can tell, this decision was reached by consensus, and the > > Acordo Ortográfico of 1990 is technically official in Portugal, > > although it may not yet be used in schools. > >Thanks Mark. > >for content, here is the Wikipedia article about it. > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Language_Orthographic_Agreement_of_1990 > >-- >John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
