Portuguese language changes

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/6/2009 02:14 PM, Mark Mandel wrote [quoting:
>Three letters will be dropped from the alphabet, umlauts will no longer be
>used for certain words, ...

"Umlauts" in Portuguese?  I am suspicious, and therefore immediately
discount the truth of the article.  (Only partly kidding.)

But no-one I think has commented on the likelihood that such an edict
can have any effect on a spoken language.

Joel

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