LISBON Authentic Gordie Howe Jersey , Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- A group of over 100 celebrities and academics has filed a lawsuit at the Portuguese Administrative Supreme Court against the teaching and use of a new spelling system, as outlined in the controversial "orthographic agreement" Dylan Larkin Jersey , in state schools, according to local press reports on Tuesday.


The Orthographic Agreement is an international treaty Frans Nielsen Jersey , originally drawn up in 1990 based on earlier drafts, that changes the spelling of hundreds of words in Portuguese to reflect the way they are pronounced in an attempt to create a unified spelling system for the Portuguese language in all the countries and regions where it is spoken.


Although the agreement was ratified by several Portuguese-speaking countries Mike Green Jersey , Portugal is so far the only country to have put it into practice.


The agreement was signed into law in Portugal in 2008 with a transitional period of six years, and on Jan. 1 Gordie Howe Jersey , 2012 the government began using the standards of the agreement in its official documents and its use began in schools that year.


Application and use of the new spelling standards, particularly in schools and at state institutions Detroit Red Wings Jersey , has had many vocal detractors who point to the confusion caused amongst the population about how to spell common words, with even well-known publications incorrectly spelling words.


In practice this has led to two "camps": one made up of people refusing to use the new spelling rules and another that has embraced them.


The lawsuit was undersigned by a number of well-known Portuguese personalities from the fields of music Jonathan Ericsson Red Wings Jersey , literature and culture and the group also made a request for the Attorney General's Office to file a suit against the agreement.


According to the lawyer who worked on the documents for the lawsuit Ivo Barroso, the Orthographic Agreement is "unconstitutional" as "there is a prohibition on the State programming culture based on any political or ideological directives."

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By Oliver Trust


BERLIN， Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- German football has provided many curious facts since the Bundesliga was founded 54 years ago. The most mysterious one leads to the question how many goals have been scored in the league's history so far? Now with the 20th round of matches coming up in the 20162017 season， people are discussing whether the 50，000 mark will be broken this weekend or not.


While today every possible data of football， such as fouls， kilometers players run per game， possession and the number of man-on-man duels are supplied by specialist company's seconds after the final whistle， the 50，000 goal question can't be answered without leaving a substantial degree of uncertainty.