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Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

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231 points rntn | 1 comments | 02 Apr 23 17:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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alex_suzuki ◴[02 Apr 23 17:36 UTC] No.35413018[source]▶
Italy really knows how to focus on what’s really important to address challenges like high unemployment and weak economy.
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tacone ◴[02 Apr 23 17:42 UTC] No.35413085[source]▶
Italians lose wars as if they were football matches, and football matches as if they were wars - Winston Churchill
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1. barrysteve ◴[02 Apr 23 18:05 UTC] No.35413351[source]▶
Probably never said it [0]. Those kinds of quotes are unlikely to be understood in today's cultural lense, because people don't see the world in national identities and the meaning those identities carried, like they used to 1800-1940.

[0] https://richardlangworth.com/quotes-churchill-never-said-2