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[baron-pierreIV]

Denis-The-Dentist, on Oct 11 2009, 09:12 PM, said:

I spot some mistakes and I'm gonna correct them and post the list in a few minutes. Most of them is spelling. The portuguese language have two official spellings, The Brazilian and The European and some of the countries in the list CAF posted are spelled like they would in Portugal, not Brazil. And there are countries that have more than one usual name in Brazil (Reino Unido and Grã-Bretanha for example and Antígua e Barbuda or Antiga e Barbuda)

If there are 2 versions, like Great Britain's, they would go with Grã-Bretanha since that's a closer match to the IOC's appellation of GBR -- and it's more universally recognized. Besides, the IOC does not recognize it as the United Kingdom (Reino Unido).

Too bad, Brits, you'll be standing much longer. Well, your guys would have had it easy 4 years earlier.

Now, MO, how are the nations going to march in...in Cape Town??

Edited by baron-pierreIV, 11 October 2009 - 04:49 PM.

[Denis-The-Dentist]

I went through CAF list, and made some corrections, both in spelling and alphabetical order. I used the Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa de 1990, in other words, the way words are spelt correctly nowadays in both Europeanl and Brazilian variations of the Portuguese language (where it applies because some regional differences between Portugal and Brazil were kept even after the Acordo). If I forgot any country please tell me, I'll put it on the list.


Grécia

Afeganistão
África do Sul
Albânia
Alemanha
Andorra
Angola
Antígua e Barbuda (more common than Antiga e Barbuda. Antígue, like CAF posted is not correct)
Arábia Saudita
Argélia
Argentina
Armênia (Arménia is European Portuguese not Brazilian Portuguese)
Austrália
Áustria
Azerbaijão

Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Barein (CAF posted the English name. In Portugal The call it Barém)
Bélgica
Belize
Benim
Bermudas
Bielorrússia
Bolívia
Bósnia e Herzegovina
Botsuana
Brunei
Bulgária
Burquina Faso
Burundi
Butão

Cabo Verde
Camarões
Camboja (not Cambdoja)
Canadá
Catar (more usual than Qatar)
Cazaquistão
Chade
Chile
China
Chipre
Cingapura (not Singapura)
Colômbia
Comores
Congo
Coreia
Cossovo (more common than Kosovo)
Costa do Marfim
Costa Rica
Couaite (Even though “Kuwait “is being forced into Portuguese, this is still the correct Portuguese spelling)
Croácia
Cuba

Dinamarca
Djibuti
Dominica

Egito
El Salvador
Emirados Árabes Unidos
Equador (not Ecuador as in spanish)
Eritreia (Not Eritrea)
Eslováquia
Eslovênia
Espanha
Estados Unidos da América
Estônia
Etiópia


Fiji
Filipinas
Finlândia
França

Gabão
Gâmbia
Gana
Geórgia
Granada (not Grenada)
Guão (More usual than Guam)
Guatemala
Guiana
Guiné
Guiné-Bissau
Guiné Equatorial

Haiti
Honduras
Hongue Congue (yes, it's strange but it is a Portuguese variation)
Hungria

Iêmen (Iémen is the way they spell it in Portugal)
Ilhas Caimã (BR portuguese version)
Ilhas Cook
Ilhas Marshall
Ilhas Salomão
Ilhas Virgens Americanas
Ilhas Virgens Britânicas
Índia
Indonésia

Irã
Iraque
Irlanda
Islândia
Israel
Itália

Jamaica
Japão
Jordânia


Laus (not Laos)
Lesoto (not Lesotho)
Letônia
Líbano
Libéria
Líbia (not Lîbia)
Listenstaina (not Liechtenstein)
Lituânia
Luxemburgo

Macedônia (not Macedónia like in Portugal)
Madagascar (more usual than Madagáscar in Brazil)
Malásia
Maláui (Portuguese Version)
Maldivas (not malivas)
Mali
Malta

Marrocos
Maurícia
Mianmar (is indeed correct in Portuguese just like CTF wrote)
Mauritânia
México
Moçambique
Moldávia
Mônaco
Mongólia
Montenegro

Namíbia
Nauru
Nepal
Nicarágua
Níger
Nigéria
Noruega
Nova Zelândia

Omã

Países Baixos
Palau
Palestina
Panamá
Papua-Nova Guiné
Paquistão
Paraguai
Peru
Polônia
Portugal
Porto Rico


Quênia
Quirguistão
Quiribati

Reino Unido
República Tcheca
Romênia (Not Roménia)
Ruanda
Rússia


Samoa
Samoa Americana
Santa Lúcia
São Cristóvão e Neves (not Nevis)
São Marinho
São Tomé e Príncipe
São Vicente e Granadinas
Seicheles (more written than Seychelles)
Senegal
Serra Leoa
Sérvia
Síria
Somália
Sri Lanca (more common in Portuguese)
Suazilândia
Sudão
Suécia
Suíça
Suriname

Tailândia
Taipê Chinesa
Tanzânia
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trindade e Tobago
Tunísia
Turquia
Tuvalu

Ucrânia
Uganda
Uruguai
Usbequistão

Vanuatu
Vaticano
Venezuela
Vietnã


Zâmbia
Zimbabue

Brasil

[Denis-The-Dentist]

baron-pierreIV, on Oct 11 2009, 06:45 PM, said:

If there are 2 versions, like Great Britain's, they would go with Grã-Bretanha since that's a closer match to the IOC's appellation of GBR -- and it's more universally recognized. Besides, the IOC does not recognize it as the United Kingdom (Reino Unido).

Too bad, Brits, you'll be standing much longer. Well, your guys would have had it easy 4 years earlier.

Now, MO, how are the nations going to march in...in Cape Town??

I think they'll go for Reino Unido in this case. We understand that when you use Reino Unido and Grã-Bretanha you can be referring to the nation, but there's a feeling, when you are speaking Brazilian Portuguese, that when you say Grã-Bretanha you are referring to the island itself excluding Northern Ireland which is in another island, then you aren't refeting to the sovereing Country. In fact, Reino Unido's official name can show you the feel of what I am saying, it's more complete : O Reino Unido da Grã-Bretanha e da Irlanda do Norte

[Kenadian]

Korea will be an odd one. Remember in some recent Olympics, they marched in together. Then I believe they stopped that in Beijing. In some Olympiads, the two Koreas were separated in the march. It will depend on the political situation at the time.

[Denis-The-Dentist]

Kendegra, on Oct 11 2009, 08:02 PM, said:

Korea will be an odd one. Remember in some recent Olympics, they marched in together. Then I believe they stopped that in Beijing. In some Olympiads, the two Koreas were separated in the march. It will depend on the political situation at the time.

Exaclty! If they are together they will be Coreia. If they are not, they will be Coreia do Norte and Coreia do Sul.

[Denis-The-Dentist]

I spot 3 countries I forgot to mention on my last list, so I added them to this new list. Just to remember, these are the common simple names to which the countries are usually are referred to in Brazil and in accordance to the Acordo Ortográfico da Lingua Portugusa de 1990 where it applies. The Koreas are united in this situation.


Grécia

Afeganistão
África do Sul
Albânia
Alemanha
Andorra
Angola
Antígua e Barbuda (more common than Antiga e Barbuda. Antígue, like CAF posted is not correct)
Arábia Saudita
Argélia
Argentina
Armênia (Arménia is European Portuguese not Brazilian Portuguese)
Austrália
Áustria
Azerbaijão

Bahamas
Bangladesh
Barbados
Barein (CAF posted the English name. In Portugal The call it Barém)
Bélgica
Belize
Benim
Bermudas
Bielorrússia
Bolívia
Bósnia e Herzegovina
Botsuana
Brunei
Bulgária
Burquina Faso
Burundi
Butão

Cabo Verde
Camarões
Camboja (not Cambdoja)
Canadá
Catar (more usual than Qatar)
Cazaquistão
Chade
Chile
China
Chipre
Cingapura (not Singapura)
Colômbia
Comores
Congo
Coreia
Cossovo (more common than Kosovo)
Costa do Marfim
Costa Rica
Couaite (Even though “Kuwait “is being forced into Portuguese, this is still the correct Portuguese spelling)
Croácia
Cuba

Dinamarca
Djibuti
Dominica

Egito
El Salvador
Emirados Árabes Unidos
Equador (not Ecuador as in spanish)
Eritreia (Not Eritrea)
Eslováquia
Eslovênia
Espanha
Estados Unidos da América
Estônia
Etiópia


Fiji
Filipinas
Finlândia
França

Gabão
Gâmbia
Gana
Geórgia
Granada (not Grenada)
Guão (More usual than Guam)
Guatemala
Guiana
Guiné
Guiné-Bissau
Guiné Equatorial

Haiti
Honduras
Hongue Congue (yes, it's strange but it is a Portuguese variation)
Hungria

Iêmen (Iémen is the way they spell it in Portugal)
Ilhas Caimã (BR portuguese version)
Ilhas Cook
Ilhas Marshall
Ilhas Salomão
Ilhas Virgens Americanas
Ilhas Virgens Britânicas
Índia
Indonésia
Irã
Iraque
Irlanda
Islândia
Israel
Itália

Jamaica
Japão
Jordânia


Laus (not Laos)
Lesoto (not Lesotho)
Letônia
Líbano
Libéria
Líbia (not Lîbia)
Listenstaina (not Liechtenstein)
Lituânia
Luxemburgo

Macedônia (not Macedónia like in Portugal)
Madagascar (more usual than Madagáscar in Brazil)
Malásia
Maláui (Portuguese Version)
Maldivas (not malivas)
Mali
Malta
Marrocos
Maurícia
Mianmar (is indeed correct in Portuguese just like CTF wrote)
Mauritânia
México
Moçambique
Moldávia
Mônaco
Mongólia
Montenegro

Namíbia
Nauru
Nepal
Nicarágua
Níger
Nigéria
Noruega
Nova Zelândia

Omã

Países Baixos
Palau
Palestina
Panamá
Papua-Nova Guiné
Paquistão
Paraguai
Peru
Polônia
Portugal
Porto Rico


Quênia
Quirguistão
Quiribati

Reino Unido
República Centro-Africana
República Checa
República Dominicana
Romênia (Not Roménia)
Ruanda
Rússia


Samoa
Samoa Americana
Santa Lúcia
São Cristóvão e Neves (not Nevis)
São Marinho
São Tomé e Príncipe
São Vicente e Granadinas
Seicheles (more written than Seychelles)
Senegal
Serra Leoa
Sérvia
Síria
Somália
Sri Lanca (more common in Portuguese)
Suazilândia
Sudão
Suécia
Suíça
Suriname

Tailândia
Taipê Chinesa
Tanzânia
Timor-Leste
Togo
Tonga
Trindade e Tobago
Tunísia
Turquia
Tuvalu

Ucrânia
Uganda
Uruguai
Usbequistão

Vanuatu
Vaticano
Venezuela
Vietnã


Zâmbia
Zimbabue

Brasil

[DannyelBrazil]

No, but in PanAms, the delegations entered the stadium before the scenical presentations, took seat in Maracana tribunes and watched all the show...

[DannyelBrazil]

Denis, there are mistakes...

in BR portuguese (that uses to allow foreigner letters)
Guam is Guam
Sri Lanka with K
Kwait or Kuaite with K
Hong Kong
Taipé Chinesa or Formosa
Maurício, Ilhas not Mauricia
Liechtenstein (not the PT portuguese version)

[baron-pierreIV]

dannyelbrazil, on Oct 12 2009, 12:28 AM, said:

No, but in PanAms, the delegations entered the stadium before the scenical presentations, took seat in Maracana tribunes and watched all the show...

But danny, that was probably only like, what 5,500 seats and I don't think your PAmOG was in it to make money. If they do that for an SOG, that would mean losing revenue for 10,000 PREMIUM seats...and it would be hard for the cameras to keep them in focus. And then what happens after the...they're properly called the Artistic portions? You will have a big empty field there with no one for the cameras to focus on. See, Beijing did such a great job of creating and maintaining a lot of color and movement on the field. NBC would have it no other way.

[DannyelBrazil]

Hmmm, I only told Brazil made different for the PanAm... I don't believe they will do the same for the SOG...
And I really they don't, since it will be 10,000 seats less to me... I wanna be there!

But, for PanAms they did different, didn't they?