Portuguese language changes

[Mark Mandel]

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

>
> It certainly sounds like the *Novo Acordo* is "meant to" have an
> effect on spoken language: "and there
> will be pronunciation changes as well."  Can these be anything other
> than an attempt to standardize?
>

(Facepalm.) Oops. It certainly does say that. But without reading the Acordo
one can't tell whether this means they're trying to change the spoken
language, changing prescriptive pronunciations to bring them into line with
actual use, or some of each.

m a m

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