Portuguese language changes

[Wilson Gray]

"... an _accord_ ... which _comes_ into force ..."

Yep. That's how I thought it read, though I can see that other readers
may prefer "... _goes_ into force ..."

-Wilson

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Mark Mandel <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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> One thing on the minds of all Brazilian publishers is the Novo Acordo -- the
> new orthographic agreement for the Portuguese language. At a time when other
> languages, particularly English, seem to be celebrating their linguistic
> diversity, Portuguese will move towards uniformity thanks to an accord
> signed by seven Portuguese-speaking countries (Brazil, Portugal, Angola,
> Mozambique, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Sao Tome and Principe), which comes
> into force January 2009.
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> Three letters will be dropped from the alphabet, umlauts will no longer be
> used for certain words, hypens will have no place for many others, and there
> will be pronunciation changes as well.
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> About 0.5 per cent of Portuguese words in Brazil will undergo a change,
> which means that publishers will have to read and introduce the alterations
> in any book they decide to reprint. "This will involve both work and money,"
> one publisher grumbles.
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