According to the BBC the Portuguese have now eliminated many of the silent consonants that were never pronounced to begin with. For instance, as the BBC states "optimo" pronounced "otimo" will now exclude the silent p within the word. The word as far as I can tell with help of a dictionary means excellent. They also opted to add in Latin letters important for transitions of some vocabulary from other languages. Will this change eliminate the cognates that are helpful in remembering the language? Well, who knows...
Unfortunately, no good news to come about French orthography.
Though I'm a little late to report the news you can read the whole article from the BBC here.
Unfortunately, no good news to come about French orthography.
Though I'm a little late to report the news you can read the whole article from the BBC here.
