{"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":"

Minister of Culture Gennaro Sangiuliano said using foreign words in the Italian language was ‘radical chic snobbery’. The irony seems to have been lost on him.<\/p>

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Italy’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>

The Local – 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>

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>

In Italian, Sangiuliano used the expression \u201csnobismo, molto radical chic\u201d. Chic, of course, is a French word.<\/p>

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>

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