Comments on: Pois Cafe http://inlovewithlisbon.com/2008/12/09/pois-cafe/ A Passion for Portugal Wed, 18 Apr 2012 20:37:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lily http://inlovewithlisbon.com/2008/12/09/pois-cafe/#comment-473 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 09:01:18 +0000 http://www.inlovewithlisbon.com/?p=392#comment-473 Hi Patrick
Oops yes I missed my tilde, thanks for spotting that. I’ve just edited. I use character map for accents as I type everything into notepad first.
Yes pois is a word of agreement or sometimes a conjunction. It seems to have quite a few uses.
It’s difficult to comment on the unification of spelling. The only way I can think of it is if English was changed to American spelling. I don’t think I would feel very happy about that. I appreciate it makes things easier in publishing and as with English some letters are silent anyway. But I also feel like there is something important in retaining spelling.

]]> By: Patrick Gribben http://inlovewithlisbon.com/2008/12/09/pois-cafe/#comment-472 Sun, 14 Dec 2008 08:33:09 +0000 http://www.inlovewithlisbon.com/?p=392#comment-472 Nice post! Blog more!

“Pois” is “poish” as in the word the Portuguese almost always put before “sim”? Or is it like peas (pois) in French?

… and, as I am stuck in pedantic mode, shouldn’t your “galao” be “galão”?

(You can get the ã by holding down ALT and pressing 0227.)

… and what do you think about Portuguese spelling and Brazilian spelling are now unified?

http://www.transparent.com/portuguese/portuguese-parliament-adopts-brazilian-spelling/

Enough for a wet Sunday morning. I’m looking forward to your next post.

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