Is it or Is it?
Dec 26, 2023 8:54:10 GMT
Post by account_disabled on Dec 26, 2023 8:54:10 GMT
The Italian language is not only made up of words, but also of signs, which interrupt and punctuate, which imply and reiterate. They are apostrophes and accents . They are a part of our written language and also our spoken language. They are the choreography of writing. Where there is an apostrophe, a syllable has been missing, buried by the pronunciation, incorporated between two words. But not forgotten. It is still there, with an apostrophe stuck like a tombstone in everlasting memory. The word was truncated to facilitate the flow of another word.
Like cars in urban traffic, words must flow, to facilitate the circulation of sentences, to speed up communication. Otherwise, slowdowns, bottlenecks, traffic jams and congestion will be created. Ours is a truncated writing . With a decisive blow of the sword, but without shedding blood, the second word cuts the first in two. “The education” was a duel that saw the Special Data birth of “the education”. “Donkey” challenged “him” to single combat, creating “the donkey”. And so on, until we have “by the author”, “I fall asleep”, “there is”, “this other one”, “it creeps in”. Entire sentences littered with silent tombstones, but which remember, which do not forget that there, before, many years ago, lived a syllable, now suppressed for the common good.
Where there is an accent, an order is given instead. A syllable is pronounced, a vowel is underlined. The tongue hits where the tooth is in pain . And at the end of the word the tongue clicks, as if a decayed tooth were appearing there. But let no dentist try to cure it! The accent is often mistreated, mistreated, confused, omitted. Yet it accentuates a particularity. Sometimes it suggests the etymology of the word itself, as in humanity . From the Latin humanitas , with the accent on the second syllable, the humanitate of the ablative moves the tongue to the fourth. And from humanitàte to humanity it is a short step.
Like cars in urban traffic, words must flow, to facilitate the circulation of sentences, to speed up communication. Otherwise, slowdowns, bottlenecks, traffic jams and congestion will be created. Ours is a truncated writing . With a decisive blow of the sword, but without shedding blood, the second word cuts the first in two. “The education” was a duel that saw the Special Data birth of “the education”. “Donkey” challenged “him” to single combat, creating “the donkey”. And so on, until we have “by the author”, “I fall asleep”, “there is”, “this other one”, “it creeps in”. Entire sentences littered with silent tombstones, but which remember, which do not forget that there, before, many years ago, lived a syllable, now suppressed for the common good.
Where there is an accent, an order is given instead. A syllable is pronounced, a vowel is underlined. The tongue hits where the tooth is in pain . And at the end of the word the tongue clicks, as if a decayed tooth were appearing there. But let no dentist try to cure it! The accent is often mistreated, mistreated, confused, omitted. Yet it accentuates a particularity. Sometimes it suggests the etymology of the word itself, as in humanity . From the Latin humanitas , with the accent on the second syllable, the humanitate of the ablative moves the tongue to the fourth. And from humanitàte to humanity it is a short step.