ANDppure we still use words. Even if we are immersed in the digital era that has simplified, depleted, someone even says our language defaced, we cannot do without words. Sometimes they have become only swear words but they are still the form of communication that distinguishes us from animals and allows us to draw the world in which we live and describe dreams, desires, inconveniences, hatreds and loves.
I have a weakness for the words and what little I learned on the topic I owe it to some mentors that I was lucky enough to meet in my short university path, one of all The legendary professor Beniamino Placido, a juggler of the language Which, with great lightness and irony, aroused literary curiosities and unusual desires of deepening in us.
It came back to me with pleasure his memorable figure reading The magician of words (Einaudi), the new book of Giuseppe Antonellilinguist and professor of Italian linguistics who, despite the intense academic activity, does not despise pop, on the contrary frequented it with skill every week in the beautiful transmission of Geppy Cucciari, Splendid setting.
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With the same spirit he wrote A book halfway between essay and novel that tells us the wonder of our language Through an original Italian teacher and outside the box that does not use grammar manuals or classic anthologies to schemes, but As a magician fascinates and enchants pupils with quizzes, words, calembours and unexpected mise en scène who hypnotize the class.
The magic of the Italian language
“The Wizard of Words” by Giuseppe Antonelli (Einaudi)
Incite “to turn the words from all sides, until we find the side we like best. Until the right joint for what we mean », and Thus he manages to transform by enchantment, just like an illusionist, a matter considered dusty and soporific in something exciting and glamorous.
Browse the vocabulary in this new vision can become more exciting to passively shake the images on Instagram and you should not listen to the so -called purists who would like to force the tongue into a cage by condemning it to mold for life.
The rules also serve to be transgressed and every change can be vitaleven the errors, as Gianni Rodari taught us, can turn into a source of creativity. Once this lesson is learned it will be difficult to go back even when the professor exhausted his task, he will disappear forever as only the real magicians can do.
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