now, now, now… glad to announce that our hopeless, yet fierce and by now familiar rebellion against corriere.it is starting again.
the newspaper bestows us with a decalogue on how you should use the cellphone: impractical, pointless and sap. Impractical, because most of the suggestions abstract away from very likely cirmustances, pointless because you cannot educate a generation with a decalouge on cellphone, if you then provide semipornographic material for free (claiming that a “newspaper should treat serious but also more easygoing news) and sap beacuse we fell in general bitter with Corriere.it.
in any case, you choose:
1- DO NOT SCREAM WHEN TALKING ON THE PHONE
cool. firstly, Italians do scream. must be genetical. secondly, have you ever tried to communicate when you are on the red line tube in milan to someone who walking near a construction site? sometimes whispers can be more than screams. not in this case.
2- DO NOT SPEAK ABOUT PRIVATE ARGUMENTS
the reason is the your neighboor may overhear and get embarassed. well, you know, many persons these days would even pay to hear private conversations. an instance? who do you think is craving to read those published telephone tappings?! moreover, if your neighboor overheards: word-voyer!
3- INTERRUPT YOUR CONVERSATION WITH SOMEONE TO PICK UP THE CELLPHONE
no, ok, then what should i do? let it ring, in a crescendo of Wagner or tiripí tiritá? or let it vibrate, making me look like a perv with something in the jeans’ pockets? brilliant!
4- DO NOT CHECK THE CELLPHONE AT THE CINEMA
that’s fair: yet, some movies are way too long: what?! already 23.34?
5- DO NOT WRITE A SMS WHILE DRIVING
mmm. but, what’s best? write a sms or directly speak on the phone?
6- DO NOT WRITE A SMS WHILE WALKING
why? why? why? because i may waist the panorama?
7- DO NOT SEND SHORT AND PETTY SMS
ah. i bet the author this Corriere article was embarking himself in a cruisade to make us all more litterate. Italians, write a sms in a D’Annunzio style! (and, by the way, what if i want to be Hermetic? May Ungaretti rest in peace). The pettiness, instead, is just typical of this century- have a look at the original article.
8- DO NOT KEEP TOO HIGH A RINGTONE
now, how would you define high? when the author will be 60 and -Gpod spare him!- almost deaf, he will take another perspective
9- SWITCH YOUR CELLPHONE OFF AT PLAYS AND CONCERTS
here we do agree, as long as for concert you mean classical ones
10- DO NOT USE YOUR CELLPHONE IN UNFITTING PLACES
well this says too little and too much. too little, beacuse “unfitting” is a definied concept only for civilised people: for the rest, there is nothing unfitting. too much, because it would make 4), 5), 6) and 9) redundant.
it is a least 2 generations that some people have been working to show that formal education is not essential to weight the human value of someone. true, but it helps a lot.
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