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Italian government seeks to penalize the use of English words

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231 points rntn | 3 comments | 02 Apr 23 17:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.214s | 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. stronglikedan ◴[03 Apr 23 04:17 UTC] No.35418500[source]▶
The majority of folks don't really think people from any country are "like" their governments, except when it comes to other countries' perceptions of Americans, for some weird reason. But in reality, there's not very many governments left that represent their citizens, including the US. The citizens of the world have collectively lost control of their governments in the last couple of decades.
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2. slim ◴[03 Apr 23 05:52 UTC] No.35419029[source]▶

  other countries' perceptions of Americans, for some weird reason
it's because of American policies that have consequences on other countries. It feels more personal
3. toyg ◴[03 Apr 23 06:02 UTC] No.35419087[source]▶
Not much lost control as just given up. The post-1989 alignment with the US on any substantial topic (economy, foreign policy...) has basically neutered the European political process.