THEor I don’t know why, but but I have always had a problem with the point and comma. I struggle to understand where to put it, like a coat that does not enter the closet. Virles, points and alas even the executed dots slip easily from the pen, indeed it would be better to say from the computer keyboard, but that strange couple cannot just place it.
It is said that the custom of communicating with social media has unbitted us to use correct punctuation And our ability to choose the words has decreased considerably, by practicality, habit, laziness. Whenever we have a grammatical or syntactic doubt we prefer to skip the piece of the obstacle so as not to waste time to deepen: The speed has become the enemy of the beloved Italian language?
We come to the rescue a nice book from the famous Accademia della Crusca (that it is blessed), Wrong they are imposed. Exercises to test your Italian (Mondadori), a 344 -page tome edited by Paolo D’Achille, Marco Biffi, Rita Librandi, Valeria Saura and Gianluca Barone with clarifications, examples, quizzes and exercises to test our knowledge or more often the ignorance of the rules.
Serena Dandini (photo by Gianmarco Chieregato).
Every field of language is analyzed, from spelling, lexicon, grammar, up to the fateful pronunciation. In fact, another damnation are the accents, unfortunately invisible signs in Italian (apart from the words trunks and some words formed by a single syllable … I say well, bran?), But these precious seers would be fundamental in order not to fall into deception.
For example, it is not said “diatrìba” but “diàriba” even if many of us would have bet the opposite. And would you say “àmaca” or “amàca”? I now, after consulting the book, I know, but I don’t tell you to leave a little suspense …
“By mistakes, exercises to test their Italian” Academy of the Crusca (Mondadori) to test
Scrolling the volume is a beautiful and fun game, There are all the answers to the questions that often leave us with the pen suspended at half -anito. We are our language and its evolution tells us how we change: like human beings, it is fickle, alive and always young despite the age.
Not by chance It is ready to welcome new ways of saying and neologisms, under the severe eye of the Accademia della Crusca which verifies this flow for us and certifies the uses and customs of the language spoken in continuous movement. I already know I have abused quotes and dots, and even this time I was unable to use any point and comma. “Certainly rejected” as Professor Alberto Sordi said to poor Totò in a memorable film.
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