quinta-feira, 6 de dezembro de 2012

Acordo Ortográfico, não esqueça!



Os falantes da língua portuguesa têm até o dia 31 de dezembro de 2012 para se adaptar ao acordo ortográfico, firmado em 1990 em Lisboa. Com o novo acordo, a intenção é unir a ortografia dos países que tem o idioma português como língua oficial: Brasil, Portugal, Guiné-Bissau, Angola, Moçambique, Cabo Verde, Timor Leste e São Tomé e Príncipe. Além disso, esse pacto linguístico é visto como uma maneira de fortalecer o idioma português a nível mundial. No Brasil, o consenso linguístico firmado entrou em vigor somente em 2009.

sábado, 1 de dezembro de 2012

World Cup 2014




Because I do live on the outskirts of São Paulo, near to the place where the Corinthian’s stadium will take place, I’m supposed to be happy about it since Corinthians is the team I cheer for. In fact I’m satisfied about it; however, the fact that they are putting it up now is really disturbing.
During the whole day one can hear all kinds of trucks and cars travelling up and down, carrying construction’s material and all stuffs related to this big construction.
I’m, therefore, wondering how it will be by the time of the next Word Cup, which will take place here in Brazil: the opening ceremony will be at that stadium, popularly known as “Itaquerão”. Moreover, the city will have plenty of people from all over the world (by the way, our airports are not that good), helicopters flying all day, a really heavy traffic around this region and overloaded hotels: actually, by now, at the stadium’s region, there are no hotels enough to help the attendance who will be in Brazil to participate in the first game of the World Cup 2014.
Nevertheless, the government says that everything will be ok – and I hope so to. In my opinion, Brazil is not prepared to receive a World Cup in 2014; generally, we don’t have a really fine infrastructure to do so: for example, the road near to the stadium, called “Radial Leste”, doesn’t have a number of lanes minimally necessary to bear a huge traffic jam; besides, there’s not sufficient and satisfactory rail roads to help people get to the event’s place.  
Despite every difficulty involving the preparation to this world ranging event, there would be really a shame if the city of São Paulo could not be prepared on time to receive the initial game of the next World Cup.
By the way, what is going to happen at the area of the stadium after the entire event? It’s another problem… Let’s see what happens.