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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: 0s | source
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m3kw9 ◴[02 Apr 23 18:00 UTC] No.35413298[source]▶
Trying to prevent some sort of western style gentrification? How come japan doesn’t have this problem?
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version_five ◴[02 Apr 23 18:06 UTC] No.35413367[source]▶
I don't consider it a problem, language alone is an extremely superficial indicator of culture - see my other comment.

But japan is a good example- maybe that's what you're driving at - because the language is full of english loan words. That's a big part of what the katakana characters are for - fitting predominantly English words into the japanese syllables.

トイレ

ミーティング

ダンス

パーティ

フライドポテト

Etc. As you say, it doesn't impact the culture.

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1. mcshicks ◴[02 Apr 23 23:02 UTC] No.35416254[source]▶
I came to say this, the Japanese have the solution, they use a different alphabet for imported foreign words although less so for Chinese. Even better they change the pronunciation and drop syllables to make the imports easy to say. Maybe other languages can invent some kind of stylizing like italics to indicate words are foreign.