Textese could be “The Death of English,” according to a Newsweek article posted last year. Gabriel wrote a blog post about Textese being a new variable, a new language of sorts fueled by a new community of people. The fear that language purists have about this new “language” is that it will somehow kill modern [...]
I know it’s been a while since I’ve written, but I am not the only one to blame; this is due to the success of the company where I work. Now seriously, I had the idea to write this blog post during the frenzy that occurred before the first celebration of the Ccaps anniversary, last [...]
You may have already heard that the eight Portuguese-speaking countries signed a new Orthographic Agreement and that Brazil is at the forefront of its implementation, official as of January 1, 2009. We had even mentioned the end of the dieresis here at the Ccaps Blog… This generated a lot of questions among buyers and vendors [...]
As an English-speaking person, you probably haven’t heard this much, or haven’t even heard it at all. But Brazilians have always wondered when the diaeresis* would be eliminated from our language. I’ve been hearing for centuries that it was bound to be extinguished, but this never actually happened… Now it is official though. According to [...]
Has your client asked you to translate something in European Portuguese, or even to “review” a European Portuguese text into Brazilian Portuguese? He may have asked you whether it is the same thing to translate a text in one language or the other. Mine has done that as well. I’ll briefly point out here some [...]
