Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-05 | Page 4 | Italy Purges Speech of All Foreign Words

Italy Purges Speech 0 Of J All F Foreign Words Remember during the war when everybody was deeply nationalistic I and patriotic how sauerkraut disappeared disappeared disappeared dis dis- dis- dis appeared from the menu and bobbed up as liberty cabbage And how the thc Germans not to be outdone suddenly sud sud- denly discovered that there had been beena a deep infiltration of or English and French words for which they at once one invented German equivalents Now 13 years after the end of th the war var Italy is swinging into action t to purify the mother tongue of words word which have slipped in from outside It is becoming the duty of or all good gooc Italians particularly writing men t to avoid foreign words There is for instance that goo good old word taxi which has become well nigh universal But it jarred the fine ear car of Benito Mussolini Theris There Ther is nothing soft and melodious an and Italian about those dreadful English Englis x sounds So the prime minister minister- dictator himself took a hand and invented invented invented in in- vented the more mellifluous tassi is banished back t to that much hated France from whence it came You must ask for a fri frittata frit tata tab Dont Don't spring that other un universal uni uni- versal English word sandwich o othe on the restaurant keeper Wrap your you hungry lips around imbo tito If you want to ask a dar dark eyed damsel in your hotel if It she likes like jazz music dont don't say it There Therea is isa isa a much prettier Italian word bright from the mint giano And when you take her back to home am and mother dont don't give the street dire directions directions to a chauffeur Remember that the National Fascist Transport federation has had several meetings meeting wracked its collective brains and pu put forth the correct word autista I