{"id":5444,"date":"2023-01-03T10:54:54","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/?p=5444"},"modified":"2023-01-03T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:54:56","slug":"italys-culture-minister-slams-foreign-words-in-italian-language-by-using-foreign-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/03\/italys-culture-minister-slams-foreign-words-in-italian-language-by-using-foreign-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Italy\u2019s culture minister slams foreign words in Italian language\u2026 by using foreign words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano said using foreign words in the Italian language was &#8216;radical chic snobbery&#8217;. The irony seems to have been lost on him.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/apiwp.thelocal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/000_32MN3W8-846x563.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><sup>Italy&#8217;s Culture Minister, Gennaro Sangiuliano attends a confidence vote at the Senate in Rome on October 26, 2022. (Photo by Alberto PIZZOLI \/ AFP)<\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The Local &#8211; Italy\u2019s Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano is being slammed for criticising the use of foreign (English) words in Italian \u2013 and using foreign words when doing so.\u00a0<\/p><p>The right-wing politician said: \u201cI believe that a certain abuse of English-speaking terms is a part of a certain snobbery, very \u2018radical chic\u2019, that comes from the lack of awareness of the global value of Italian culture\u201d.<\/p><p>In Italian, Sangiuliano used the expression \u201csnobismo, molto radical chic\u201d. Chic, of course, is a French word.<\/p><p><em>Snobismo<\/em>\u00a0is derived from the English word \u2018snob\u2019, and translates rougly as \u2018snobbery\u2019. The phrase \u2018radical chic\u2019, which was coined in 1970s America to describe fashionably left-wing political views, is rarely used by native English speakers today, but is widely used in Italy.<\/p><div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.it\/20221230\/italys-culture-minister-slams-foreign-words-in-italian-language-by-using-foreign-words\/\">Read more here<\/a><\/div><\/div><p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano said using foreign words in the Italian language was &#8216;radical chic snobbery&#8217;. The irony seems to have been lost on him. The Local &#8211; Italy\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/minister.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5446,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5444\/revisions\/5446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panoramitalia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}