Brazilian vs Portugues; we know!

joao   Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:04 pm GMT
«There's a bigger difference between Dutch and Afrikaans than EU and BR Portuguese.

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Of course not, Dutch have call centers in Cape Town, yet, no Portuguese company put their call centers in Rio or Brasilia. »

How do you know that? Or is it just an invented lie?~

In Portugal, many Brazilians work in call centers. They speak with their sweet Brazilian accent and, so what? It's Portuguese.
Joao   Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:06 pm GMT
«There's a bigger difference between Dutch and Afrikaans than EU and BR Portuguese.

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Of course not, Dutch have call centers in Cape Town, yet, no Portuguese company put their call centers in Rio or Brasilia.»

There is. You do not speak Portuguese, so why do you come up with bullshit?
I speak Dutch. Afrikaans has a different spelling, with a notorious Dutch root, but a different spelling.
Joao   Fri Nov 13, 2009 3:10 pm GMT
«If I'm not mistaken, the Dutch and Afrikaans speakers made an agreement to minimize the ortographic differences between the two similar to that of BP and EP agreement. »

Probably. But there are a lot more differences. The Afikanners were separated from Holland longer than Brazil was independent from Portugal. The Afrikanners were also isolated.

Go to Wikipedia and pick up a subject. If there's a page in Afrikaans and another in Dutch, you can see the differences in spelling in almost all the words.
Deit   Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:38 pm GMT
http://www.eprop.co.za/news/article.aspx?idArticle=3972


South Africa is set to become a preferred destination for Dutch companies wanting to outsource their customer contact centres, says Michel Arends, Cape representative of the SA Netherlands Chamber of Commerce (Sanec) and managing director of the Communication and Contact Centre Training Institute (CCTI).

There are already two contact centres in Cape Town serving the Netherlands, and the province has set a target of 1 500 new Dutch-language jobs by the end of 2007, says Arends.