The idea came from 23 MPs led. fabio rampelliA lot close to prime minister The far-right Giorgia Meloni from Italy. and illness this is real: All sorts of uses increasingly common in Italy foreign words changing Italian terms (almost always equivalent)in both spoken and written language. However, it is the drug that stirs the excitement: a bill aimed at punishment. fine of up to 100,000 euros To all companies, universities and public officials who use non-Italian words.
The argument is that The Italian language may “collapse” and “gradually to disappear”, as well as the use of foreign words exclude a section of citizens from “participatory democracy”. “From 2000 to the present day, English words (…) increased 773%: There are currently around 9,000 Anglophone terms in the Treccani dictionary, which contains 800,000 words of Italian,” they added.
Therefore, they say, the purpose build a barrier in the face of the spread of foreign terms”, because “globalization and stereotyped monolingualism” pose a danger to local languages.
‘Brexitphobia’
The offer, already several years old, was reactivated by Rampelli himself. He has eight articles and focuses specifically on English, the language most often used to replace Italian words, although his goal is to rid Italian of all foreign words.
Another reason pilgrim: ‘Brexitphobia’. “With Brexit, (the use of Englishisms) is even more negative and paradoxical, because it is precisely the country where this language originated, left the European Union“, writes. “It’s not just a fad, it’s ‘Anglomania’ projected as fads fade away in corporate decisions Like schools and universities, the consequences are for society as a whole,” the lawmakers added.
The conflict is not new. Already Thousands of Italians protested in 2015 After the Italian Navy used the slogan “Keep calm and join the navy” to attract new recruits. “Are we an American colony?”, they condemned at that time. have Crusca Academy (Italian SAR) also launched some campaigns to curb the phenomenon and raise public awareness, but not all with great success.
Nonsense
However, this time Crusca Academy He complained about an offer he found insufficient. The institution’s director, Claudio Mazzini, “confirmed that there is a risk”HE nonsense”. Others have been even more blunt. They fiercely criticized those who were branded as “.new ‘crusade’While the Government of Giorgia Meloni, for example, with the “Made in Italy” ministry dedicated to the preservation of local Italian products, wondered what the far-right politics would do.
Therefore, even in the issue that was intervened this week, Antonio Tajani, Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs. The subject was asked by a journalist who said the offer was fragrant. dictator Benito MussoliniTajani assured him that the bill he had integrated and directed by Meloni was “a parliamentary, not a Government’s” bill. Still, Tajani added that the proposal “had nothing to do with the late Italian dictator”.
“I have always defended the Italian language: it is the mother tongue, Dante Alighieri He is the poet of the Italians,” he added. “Fascism ended in 1945. Something from the past that does not and does not concern us. Mussolini did more damage What good things,” he decided, more frustrating than anything.