Exemplo de como o Acordo Ortográfico é visto pelo mundo «não-lusófono» ================= «[...] Portuguese is now the world’s sixth-most spoken language, with close to 240 million users worldwide. And it is Brazil’s version, which has some significant differences from the European one in grammar and vocabulary, that is spreading. When people speaking Portuguese from Portugal appear on television here, they are frequently subtitled in “Brazilian.” “There are 200 million of us, and not even 11 million of them [in Portugal],” says Tania de Souza Bastos, a Portuguese teacher and linguaphile in Rio. “It only makes sense that ours will be the world’s Portuguese. They have no choice.” [...] In Portugal today, the government is trying to sell the changes in spelling to which it agreed in the Acordo Ortográfico to its citizens with the argument that the standardization will simplify the global promotion of Portuguese – but Prof. Faustino noted that English does just fine without standardization. “Portuguese will become more relevant on the world stage because Brazil is an economic and cultural superpower – but that will happen organically, it doesn’t depend on these issues of unified spelling,” he said. Luiz Carlos Cagliari, a linguistics professor and expert on orthography in Sao Paulo, says the spelling treaty was unnecessary, since all it did was inflame tensions, and sooner or later everyone would have been using Brazil’s spellings anyway. The rise of Brazilian Portuguese is long overdue, he said. “We must be heard and viewed as an important nation.” [...]» -- Extraído do jornal «The Globe and Mail» (Toronto, Ontário, Canadá), edição de 18 de Outubro de 2013. Accessível em: theglobeandmail/news/world/brazilian-is-ascending-and-lisbon-is-not-amused/article14940276/ #acordo_ortográfico #aborto_ortográfico #ao90
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