[Air-l] Languages on the Internet - air-l Digest, Vol 20, Issue 28

[Nancy Baym]

I think that was the point -- making sure that he was marked as an 
Italian mister rather than an English mister. Nancy

>Talking of languages, power and cultural variations...
>The journalist 's comment is rather funny to Italians, since he ignored that
>"Signor Marconi" in Italian is the exact equivalent of  "Mr. Marconi" !
>
>ciao, Monica
>
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>From: "Nancy Baym" <nbaym at ku.edu>
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>>  Monica, the Italian who has lived in Ireland, writes:
>>
>>>funny... Someone should tell Carolyn Marvin that actually  Guglielmo
>>>Marconi's mom was Irish, not British - I am sure Irish appreciate the
>>>difference. Annie Jameson ...the daughter of the founder of the Whiskey
>>>Jameson: perhaps that helped too  !
>>
>>  In her defense, Marvin is quoting from publications of the time. She
>>  has a quote from a 1897 British journal saying he should be addressed
>>  as "Signor Marconi" because "he has hardly been in this country long
>>  enough to entitle him to be referred to as 'Mr. Marconi.'"
>>
>>  Then she has a quote from 1899 in the Western Electrician which
>>  Marvin describes as an effort "to efface the damaging accusation of
>>  outsider":
>>
>>  "Although Italian on his father's side and by birth, Marconi's mother
>>  was an Englishwoman, and in general appearance, complexion and manner
>>  the inventor is seemingly a young and clear complexioned Englishman,
>>  Signor Marconi is a man of medium height and slender, with blue eyes
>>  and clean-shaven face, except for a slight mustache. He is of a
>>  retiring disposition. As might be expected, he speaks English like a
>>  native..."
>>
>>  All this is on page 46 of her book, for quotophiles.
>>
>>  Nancy
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