Actress Emma Thompson has spoken out against the use of sloppy language. She said: "We have to reinvest, I think, in the idea of articulacy as a form of personal human freedom and power." She also said: "There is the necessity to have two languages - one that you use with your mates and the […]

Italians are quite used to feeling "lo stress", looking forward to "il weekend" or trying to look "cool". But now an influential cultural institute has asked Italians to protect the language and reject "Anglitaliano". The Dante Alighieri Society asked people for examples of over-used foreign words and "il weekend" emerged as the worst offender. The […]