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Andrea Camilleri is a literary celebrity in Italy. And he' s best known abroad for his novels featuring his brilliant fictional creation, the Sicilian detective, Inspector Montalbano. But the author is worried about the health of the language in which he works. Speaking earlier this week he took issue with the country' s politicians for peppering their speeches with English words and phrases. Terms like " welfare", " governance", " devolution", and even " election day". The author said that Prime Minister Mario Monti was a leading offender. And it' s true that Mr Monti does indeed frequently reach for English terminology. Here' s an example from his first speech to Parliament. Listen to how he just drops in the English phrase " best practices". And in the very next breath, he' s at it again, sliding in that grim English term " spending review". Mr Camilleri said Mr Monti' s habit was just part of what he called an " awful tradition" in Italian public life. Not enough, he said, was being done to take care of the national language. And he gave a classic example. He said that when he served on a jury for a prize given by the Italian state broadcaster at the Venice Film Festival he was dismayed to find that the official language of the judging would be English. |
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Andrea Camilleri shì yì dà lì de yī wèi wén xué jù jiàng. tā zuì wéi rén suǒ zhī de, shì xiǎng yù shì jiè de jīng cǎi xiǎo shuō jué sè, xī xī lǐ de zhēn tàn, Montalbano tàn zhǎng. rán ér, zhè wèi zuò jiā què wèi yì dà lì de mǔ yǔ yì dà lì yǔ de qián jǐng biǎo shì dān yōu. běn zhōu zǎo xiē shí hòu, tā yǐ jīng yīn wèi běn guó zhèng kè zài fā yán shí pín fán shǐ yòng yīng wén dān cí yǐ jí duǎn yǔ biǎo shì guò qiáng liè bù mǎn. shè jí dào de shù yǔ hán gài le" fú lì"" guǎn lǐ"" quán lì xià fàng", shèn zhì" xuǎn jǔ rì". zuò jiā de máo tóu zhí zhǐ yì dà lì shǒu xiàng Mario Monti, shì shí yě zhèng shì rú cǐ, Monti xiān shēng què shí zài yīng wén shù yǔ fāng miàn jīng cháng shè liè. xià miàn yī duàn huà lái zì shǒu xiàng xiān shēng dì yī cì duì yì huì fā biǎo de yǎn jiǎng, lái tīng tīng tā shì rú hé jiāng yīng yǔ xìn shǒu niān lái, fù zhī shí zhàn. yì dà lì yǔ lüè ér jǐn jiē zhe, tā yòu rú fǎ páo zhì, jiē lián shǐ yòng huì sè de yīng wén shù yǔ. yì dà lì yǔ lüè Camilleri xiān shēng rèn wéi, Monti xiān shēng fàn yòng yīng wén de xí guàn jǐn jǐn shì yì dà lì rì cháng shēng huó zhōng" lòu xí" de bīng shān yī jiǎo. tā hái rèn wéi, duì yú bǎo hù běn guó de mǔ yǔ, gōng zuò zuò de hái yuǎn yuǎn bù gòu. yú shì tā gěi chū yí gè diǎn xíng de lì zi. Camilleri xiān shēng céng jīng zài wēi ní sī diàn yǐng jié chū xí píng wěi, ér tā jǔ sàng dì fā jué, jí shí jiǎng xiàng de fā fàng shì yóu yì dà lì běn guó de bō yīn yuán xuān dú de, yě bù dé bù shǐ yòng píng shěn tuán guān fāng de yǔ yán yīng yǔ. |