Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by dfxm12 on Sunday April 02, 2023 @03:53PM (#35414431)

This is coming from an increasingly right wing, nationalist, Italian government. This is the type of government that will disqualify a person or way of thinking just because of where it comes from, and this type of xenophobia is kinda dangerous. Plus, the emphasis on "correct use of the Italian language and its pronunciation" also seems to discriminate against people who speak southern dialects.

After all, Tu vuò fà l'americano is merely satire. https://youtu.be/BqlJwMFtMCs

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by InCityDreams on Sunday April 02, 2023 @05:00PM (#35415161)

An Northern dialects, too.

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Sunday April 02, 2023 @08:34PM (#35417042)

Every italian region has a dialect. Even Meloni herself can be clearly recognized as being from Rome based on the choice of words and pronunciation.

I find that beautiful, but this law seems to be against it

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Re:Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English w... by paganel on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:19PM (#35417363)

I would say many Southern dialects are (or were, more exactly) proper languages, it's only with the advent of the Unification of Italy that the "florentine language" got the upper hand.

For example just this evening I was listening to this Neapolitan (I think it's Neapolitan, definitely Southern) song Brigante se more [1] and I needed to see the written down lyrics to get a hold of it [2], as I couldn't understand almost anything at a first hearing. I know Italian pretty well, but I just couldn't parse the song when hearing it directly.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haF2sPzb63s

[2] https://theitaliansong.com/songs/brigante-se-more/

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