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Wanted in Rome
12 May, 2021
By Martin Bennett
In these days of problematic foreign travel, one could take an alternative pleasure (or horror?) tour along the frontiers where English and Italian meet. And without having to move a centimetre.
Take
backuppato: Using the same term, a friend from Verona stopped my ever-shaky Italian comprehension in its tracks. “Scusami, un inutile anglicismo,” he explained, recalling an italicised category that peppered his father’s 1930s
Palazzi dictionary. “Ah, backed up,” the penny dropped.
cliccatore,
followare,
zoomando.
Back in the 1930s the main objection to the use of foreign words derived from the fascist regime’s disapproval of things mainly American. A decree went as far as banning anglicisms in shop signs and adverts; transgressors risked six months imprisonment.