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Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

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231 points rntn | 4 comments | 02 Apr 23 17:19 UTC | HN request time: 1.709s | source
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antirez ◴[02 Apr 23 20:10 UTC] No.35414618[source]▶
Please, don't think Italians are like that. It's just this stupid government. For instance in Italian, unlike Spanish, French, ..., there are no italianized words for all the computer science words, we just use English. In general there is not a big sentiment of culture self-defence. But this government is trying to do things that will appeal the dumb people voting for it.
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1. Bayart ◴[02 Apr 23 21:30 UTC] No.35415452[source]▶
> there are no italianized words for all the computer science words, we just use English

You're bragging about your language being poorer.

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2. adontz ◴[02 Apr 23 21:44 UTC] No.35415574[source]▶
You really want to use farsound instead of telephone?
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3. krsdcbl ◴[02 Apr 23 21:49 UTC] No.35415619[source]▶
am i on Reddit?
4. angrais ◴[02 Apr 23 22:29 UTC] No.35415950[source]▶
telefono is telephone though?