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[Thiago Macieira]

On segunda-feira, 27 de março de 2017 00:43:56 PDT Marc Mutz wrote:
> Been there, done that. Delphin is now spelled Delfin in German. For - what -
> 20 years now? It still looks wrong. Oh, and the public outcry back then.
> And the economic damage caused by having to re-proofread, re-edit and
> re-print a ton of Flipper books...
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_orthography_reform_of_1996

Oh, yeah, they almost did that to Superman in Portuguese too ("super-homem") 
by dropping the hyphen and the 'h'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Portuguese_Language_Orthographic_Agreement_of_1990

I still miss the trema/diaeresis ("umlaut" sign)... the next generation won't 
know if "frequency" and "liquid" is pronounced with a /k/ (like in French) or 
a /kʷ/ sound (like in English).

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  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center