Talk:Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990

New content here
Just moved a bunch of content from Spelling_reforms_of_Portuguese. Someone please review the article and improve on its flow. Thank you. --maf (talk-cont) 12:21, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Report on medical translation blog
Editors of Portuguese Language Orthographic Agreement of 1990 may be interested in this report. -- Wavelength (talk) 22:45, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Medical Translation Blog: Language fact: Brazilian Portuguese changes spelling rules

Types or tokens?
The article refers to the percent of "words" that are affected by the spelling changes. Are those %s measured on types or tokens? (These terms are used by linguists: the word "the" in English would count as just one type, and would therefore be a vanishingly small % of the words in English. But since it is extremely common, its token count would be much higher, and so its token frequency as a % is much higher.)  Also, does this distinguish the various inflected forms of a lexical item? I don't know Portuguese, so I'm forced to use a Spanish example: if "word" means "lexical item", then all the forms of 'hablar' ("to speak") count as a single word. But if "word" means "word forms", then not only 'hablar', but also 'hablo', 'habla'... 'hablaremos'... etc. count as individual words. Similarly the singular and plural forms of nouns would or would not count as different "words" (and for adjectives, the gender x number combinations). Mcswell (talk) 17:17, 2 May 2016 (UTC)


 * I cannot answer for whoever wrote the article, but when they say "words", I am pretty sure they mean dictionary entries as in lexical items. Therefore, "falar" (the Portuguese equivalent to Spanish "hablar", both derived from Vulgar Latin fabulare) and all of its inflected forms (falo, falei, falarei, falava, etc.) count as a single word.2804:431:C7DB:1256:1997:7DC0:8A41:B160 (talk) 23:42, 25 October 2020 (UTC)