Rosaria Carpinelli Consulenze Editoriali - Comunque anche Leopardi diceva le parolacce

The subjunctive is dead, the semicolon is dead, and even Italian doesn't feel so good. They keep telling us that our language is becoming corrupted, but are we sure that is really the case? Are we sure that the virtual Italian is the one of Facebook and Twitter and not the scholastic-bureaucratic one that pushes us to say "recarsi," "presso," "to carry out"? With great irony and intelligence, Giuseppe Antonelli decides to challenge the clichés of linguistic conservatism and respectability, going so far as to (partially) rehabilitate the swear words and vituperative abbreviations used in text messages and chats. Because language is a living organism and, with the intention of protecting it from any innovation, one would end up caging it and letting it die sad and perished, of hibernating it in the name of a never-existent ice age of perfection.

Publication date: 23.09.2014
Publisher: Mondadori