Archive for March 22nd, 2008

  • Mar
    22
    2008

    L’unico paese occidentale in cui… [insert argument here]

    I’ve begun to notice a certain rhetorical trope in the electoral campaign, which can be easily adapted to a number of topics, provided you don’t care about getting your facts wrong.
    The general form is to say
    “Italy is/cannot become  the only western country/only democratic country in which…”  X,
    “L’Italia è/non puo diventare l’unico paese occidentale/l’unico paese democratico [...]

 
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