ITALIAN GRAND PRIX

I’ve really gone off topic with this one, but seeing as I live in Monza, Italy and just down the road from me is the race circuit for the Italian Grand Prix which is to be held this weekend 14th September. I’m bending the rules

Seeing as we are in Italy a recent article from the Telegraph.co.uk explains how Italians have adopted how can you say, a love of English words in their daily vocabulary.

From ‘il weekend’ to ‘lo stress’ and ‘le leadership’, Italians increasingly sprinkle their conversations with English terms, some of them comically mangled and bizarre sounding to a native English speaker.

‘Baby parking’, for example, is a strange conflation which means child care centre or nursery.

A ‘baby gang’, on the other hand, is a more sinister construct. It means a group of young criminals or hoodlums.

As with the French and their use of Franglais, Italians sometimes throw in English words to appear worldly and cosmopolitan, and at other times to describe things slightly alien to the Italian mindset, from ‘il fitness’ to ‘il full immersion training’.

But now a cultural guardian of the Italian language is saying ‘basta!’ – enough.

Source www.telegraph.co.uk/news