Who Owns a Language?
Linguistic purism is nothing new, and it certainly did not begin with Fascism.
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Who Owns a Language?
Why Fascist Italy made foreign words a political problem
The campaign against loanwords was not merely an argument about style. It connected vocabulary with national identity, obedience and the regime’s ambition to regulate public life.
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