We speak Italian! I read some newspapers and I find phrases or even headlines like this:
during smart working lockdown for managers on smartphones. There is no lockdown instead for caregivers hoping they do not stalk. Without the recovery fund, the flat tax moves away and the spending review approaches, voluntary disclosure is not enough. For the banks, we hope for a bail out, governance permitting. The premier will exercise his leadership and know-how to launch the stepchild adoption. All of these are fake news. Take a nice selfie, like all VIPs.
But don't we really want to use that extra neuron to find the Italian word for the same thing? And to say that it would be particularly easy, given that Italian is a very rich language.
But isn't it simply that many take advantage of English terms to make smoke around concepts that otherwise would not go so smoothly? Are we so sure, for example, that it is by chance that politicians and bankers fill their mouths with English terms just when they have to communicate to a people, like the Italian one, that English simply does not know?
And then we talk about lockdown to feel international but we know that the English term for quarantine is "quarantine", which it derives expressly from Italian?
We open our eyes. The Italian does not need all of this. And every time we use useless English terms out of laziness or conformity, we become complicit in this process that is dismantling the Italian language.
Here is a list to help us not become complicit in the destruction of the most beautiful language in the world.
We speak Italian!
lockdown: lockdown
smart working: agile work
manager: executive
smartphone: cellphone
caregiver: family assistant
stalking: persecutory acts
recovery fund: recovery fund
flat tax: flat tax
spending review: review of public spending
voluntary disclosure: voluntary collaboration
bail in: internal save
bail out: external rescue
premier: prime minister
leadership: ability to lead
stepchild adoption: adoption of the partner's child
fake news: fake news
selfie: photo
know-how: competence
governance: administration
vip: celebrity
