A True Italian

Perfect Italian does not exist, and has never existed. Italian continues to change: the way we use it changes, because the world in which we use it changes. In just a few years we have gone from the epistle to the e-pistol: e-mail, chat, messaging, social networks. And so-for the first time in its history-Italian finds itself not only spoken but also written on a daily basis by the majority of Italians. Giuseppe Antonelli tells the story of each of us: we who used to write letters and today write on Whatsapp. He takes us through acronyms and English words, punctuation and emoji, dialectisms and fashionable expressions. In an agile and enjoyable tone, he explains how some aspects of grammar are changing. He reconstructs the epochal transition from Italian to e-Talian: from cyberpionics to hashtag jumping, via urban legends about the effects of computers and texting language. A valuable book for everyone: for those who "type ergo sum," but also for those who still think of snails when they hear chiocciola. Read the press review

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Publication date: 08.09.2016
Publisher: Rizzoli
Country: Italy

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