i blame the soviet ministry of propaganda. why they spent so much time editing the Arkady’s and Lem’s while Lenin was like “this is an apple, you eat it with your mouth and then you chew it with your teeth!” bro stop what the fuck

  • CloutAtlas [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    The Italics were inserted to appeal to the average Italian who would otherwise be too busy drinking olive oil and spinning pizza dough in the air to read it.

    But with Italics in the mix?

    “Mama mia, Giuseppe, come-a ova here and read-a this book abouta socialismo, and some-a of the words are a-leaning like the Tower of Pisa”

    Anyway, this is ultimately what led to Gladio. Too many Italians were leaning into Marxist Leninism due to italics.