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These nuances and variations may be conditioned by territory or class, but more than with idiosyncrasies of local tongue, they have to do with a primordial role of language: the construction of identity. Language reveals the speaker (their family, school, occupation, local background … and hence probably their future), but it also defines in what ways or degrees they are different. ‘Yes, you may write an entire book in Italian, and even get it published, but don’t fool yourself: you’re not one of us.’ Nevertheless, and very understandably to me, Jhumpa Lahiri constructs her own glossary to practice regularly, and she studies Italian grammar in order to be able, one day, to write ‘error free’.
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