Portuguese language changes

[Mark Mandel]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

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

I don't think it's meant to (emphasis added):

One thing on the minds of all Brazilian publishers is the Novo Acordo -- the
> new *orthographic *agreement for the Portuguese language.
>

m a m

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