Portuguese language changes

[Wilson Gray]

You're saying there's a mispreapprehension of a clichéd phraseology?
Okay. Makes sense, I reckon.

-Wilson

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 10:50 PM -0400 10/4/09, Wilson Gray wrote:
>>Is "... comes (sic) ..." in the original? IAC, why the "(sic," since
>>the subject of the relative clause, "which," relates to the headword,
>>"accord," which, like "comes," is singular.
>>
>>-Wilson
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> Maybe not the agreement, but the expression itself, "comes into
> force" rather than "goes into force".
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> LH
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>>On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Tom Zurinskas <truespel at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  Brazil has won the latest Olympics site competition.  Below is a clip about=
>>>   changes to the Portuguese spelling and pronunciation.  It shows that chang=
>>>  es can happen.
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>>>  *http://www.hindu.com/lr/2009/10/04/stories/2009100450100300.htm*
>>>  <http://www.hindu.com/lr/2009/10/04/stories/2009100450100300.htm>*=20
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>>>  * ".... One thing on the minds of all Brazilian publishers is the Novo Acor=
>>>  do =97the new orthographic agreement for the Portuguese language. At a time=
>>>   when other languages=2C particularly English=2C seem to be celebrating the=
>>>  irlinguistic diversity=2C Portuguese will move towards uniformity thanks to=
>>>   an accord signed by seven Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil=2C Portuga=
>>>  l=2CAngola=2C Mozambique=2C Cape Verde=2C Guinea-Bissau=2C Sao Tome and Pri=
>>>  ncipe)=2C which comes (sic) into force January 2009. Three letters will be =
>>>  dropped from the alphabet=2C umlauts will no longer be used for certain wor=
>>>  ds=2C hyphens will have no place for many others=2C and there will be pronu=
>>>  nciation changes as well. About 0.5 per cent of Portuguese words in Brazil =
>>>  will undergo a change=2C which means that publishers will have to read and =
>>>  introduce the alterations in any book they decide to reprint. =93This will =
>>>  involve both work and money=2C=94one publisher grumbles.=20
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>>>  Tom Zurinskas=2C USA - CT20=2C TN3=2C NJ33=2C FL7+
>>>  see truespel.com phonetic spelling
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>>-Wilson
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>>All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"--a strange complaint to
>>come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
>>-Mark Twain
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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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