by InTrieste
Italy’s public and private entities could face fines of up to €100,000 for using foreign terms in official communications, under a draft bill launched by the Italian government.
The bill takes aim in particular at the use of English words, or “Anglomania”, which has “repercussions for society as a whole” as the spread of English “demeans and mortifies” the Italian language.
Under the proposed law, which is designed to safeguard the Italian language and national identity, all job titles and acronyms used by companies operating in Italy should be spelt in Italian unless it is impossible to translate them.
We went downtown Trieste to find out what locals thought about it.
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