Lpc2000

Joerg Schulze-Clewing escreveu:

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>It's only one 't', "gute". In common German they write it capitalized
>"Dich" but that was changed in the last grammar law. Crazy, the
>government thought they could change the grammar. Most people
>including me did not accept it and just continued using the old style.
>Same for many newspapers.
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It happened some time ago also in Brazil, but as the new grammar was 
mandatory in schools, it took, guess, one genertation for the change to 
be complete... I took the whole school with the new grammar, and really 
find funny some things of the older one... It may happen in german as 
well. I was in 1999 in Germany, and it was quite confusing, since the 
language teachers didn't know exactly if the should teach the new or the 
old grammar, so we kind of got both and a tendency to mix up them....

to Xtian: the você and tu from Portuguese have the same origin of the 
Sie and Du in German, formal and informal forms... The Sie in German 
gets also in the third person. The difference in Brazil between formal 
and informal got away, and now it's a regional diference in use. In 
Portugal, as long as I know, there's still the difference between formal 
and informal (and I'm sure there's someone from Portugal in this forum 
that could assure/correct me)...

MFG,
Ricardo

>Obrigado, Joerg   (hope this was correct...)
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