Language subtag registration for 1990aolp

[CE Whitehead]

Hi, Joao, Antonio, Francisco, all:
João Miguel Neves joao at silvaneves.org 
Thu Sep 15 20:48:03 CEST 2011 

> Em 15-09-2011 17:32, CE Whitehead escreveu:
>> Anyone want to suggest dictionaries or sample texts (it would be nice
>> to have the whole text but I think we can take a citation)?   (Sorry I
>> cannot  
>> (A google search returned the following:
>>
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novo_Dicionário_Aurélio_da_Língua_Portuguesa
>> Novo Dicionario da lingua Portuguesa 2009
>> Brazilian Portuguese; so you would still need a reference for
>> Portuguese Portuguese I think;
>>
>>
>> http://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/
>> Dicionaria Priberam,
>> which advertises itself:
>>
>>
>> "a consulta de mais de 105.000 entradas;
>> o uso da ortografia com ou sem o Acordo Ortográfico de 1990;
>> a selecção entre a variedade de português de Portugal ou do Brasil."
>>
> I don't know any dictionary that matches the vocabulary referenced above
> (António will probably tell us that means the VOP is wrong). One of my
> usual tests is "leem" vs "leêm".
Thanks for this.
>> For examples of texts with this orthography check any Portuguese
>> newspaper (they've adopted the new orthography within the last year):

>> http://www.dn.pt/inicio/portugal/interior.aspx?content_id=1998432&seccao=Madeira&page=-1

> Newspaper sites:
> http://www.dn.pt/
For reference, this is "Diario de Noticias."
> http://www.ionline.pt/
(I have not been here yet.)

> http://www.publico.pt/
For reference, this is "Publico."
> Would you like anything else?

I briefly went to both Publico and Diario de Noticias, after reading Antonio's post (Antonio says that "Publico" is not adopting the reform).

(One Note:  Regardless of whether or not these newspapers are adopting the reform, unfortunatley both "Diario de Noticias" and "Publico" sometimes carry the same articles. An example is the following article -- the first copy came from "Diario de Noticias;" the second from "Publico":

"O ministro da Educação e Ciência, Nuno Crato afirmou hoje em Valpaços que sempre houve professores com contratos a termo de um mês, mas que este ano se verificou uma renovação automática."

"O ministro da Educação e Ciência, Nuno Crato, afirmou hoje, em Valpaços, que sempre houve professores com contratos a termo de um mês, mas que este ano se verificou uma renovação automática."


In this case I guess the spelling is the same both with/without implementing the orthographic reform -- is this correct?  But I wonder what what spelling will be used if these newspapers opt to carry other identical articles where there are words that are not spelled the same way pre- and post-reform?  Oh well.)


I did find another text:



"Na sequência de um relatório publicado em Abril pelo Tribunal de Contas sobre os encargos assumidos e não pagos pela Madeira, o INE e o BdP avaliaram as contas da região e detectaram que “as dívidas contraídas desde 2004 e objecto de Acordos de Regularização de Dívidas (ADR) em 2008 e 2009 não foram registadas como encargos assumidos e não pagos, não tendo sido igualmente comunicadas às autoridades estatísticas”."


This is from Publico  (http://economia.publico.pt/noticia/dividas-da-madeira-obrigam-a-revisao-dos-defices-entre-2008-e-2010_1512210); 


So I do have a question:
would  " 
contraídas" be written without the accent if this were written according to the 1990 orthographic reform? 

In any case, my take is that whether there is a suitable reference or not, there is clearly a demonstrated need for a subtag for an orthograpy if an online newspaper is using it.  So no problem there.

(Also, of course, there is no way that I know of for ietf-languages to enforce the agreement, that is to force the creation of a good reference vocabulary for the orthography agreed on in the 1990 accord.)

So I don't oppose this subtag, not at all.  I just have these questions, because of all the conversation.  Sorry.


(Also I apologize to Doug if I asked to have additional sources listed in the subtag request form itself;

additional sources can be cited on the list I guess;
however I did not come up with a good dictionary for Portuguese Portuguese that follows the 1990 accord --

unless of course

http://www.priberam.pt/dlpo/
Dicionaria Priberam,
is acceptable.) 


Best,

--C. E. Whitehead
cewcathar at hotmail.com
 		 	   		  
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