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I meant to post this yesterday, but I got into the cleaning zone. Is my place still messy? Yes, but hush

2. The Italian N-Word, where we talk with @mcanzanella.bsky.social about the Neapolitan language and how it is perceived in Italy www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

It's that time of year again! our top 5 episodes for 2025 5. Peven Stinker, where we talk smack about Pinker www.buzzsprout.com/1930383/epis...

Congrats @draliaamir.bsky.social

Thanks for the mention, THE SOCIETY FOR ITALIAN STUDIES. 🙏 "As a way of drawing attention to lesser-spoken languages, such as southern Italian considered a ‘vulnerable’ language by UNESCO, Massimiliano Canzanella and Neil McClelland italianstudies.org.uk/2025/12/09/r...

MASTODASCIA and the Neapolitan Language are coming to London! ✈️ 🇬🇧 MASTODASCIA e ’a Lengua Napulitana vèneno a Londra! 🔨 🪛 🪓

An excerpt from the reading of my bilingual play MASTODASCIA (CARPENTER) at the Translation Studies Symposium (University of Glasgow Advanced Research Centre) organised by Dr Enza De Francisci. Read by PhD candidate Neil McLelland (Glasgow University) and myself. youtu.be/tPjSR6M2ACc?...

Really looking forward to speaking at #IPCITI2025 tomorrow! My keynote, ‘Translating Rape’ will be hybrid. See below for details to register.

Yesterday, with my friend, lead actor and PhD candidate Neil McClelland, at the Translation Studies Symposium organised by Dr Enza De Francisci at the University of Glasgow.

Accussì se fa. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Way to go. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I cannot thank @tazinabdullah.bsky.social and the whole @languageonthemove.bsky.social Team enough. You have literally put our language and the plight of its speakers on the world linguistics map. And thank you, @lauraskh.bsky.social, for your deeply humbling words. 🙏

I am delighted and honoured to have been invited - courtesy of Dr Enza De Francisci - to present my bilingual play MASTODASCIA (Neapolitan with English translation) at the Translation Studies Symposium which will be held next 1 December at the University of Glasgow.

I've started a Starter Pack for the Language on the Move research community 🥳 For members of the research group, contributors to the blog/podcast. Please shout out if you're part of the LOTM community and I'll add you/tag suggestions (or lmk if you're on there but would prefer not to be)

Successo di “Mastodascia” a Glasgow. "La risposta straordinaria del pubblico dimostra quanto sia sentita l'esigenza di tutelare e tramandare il nostro patrimonio linguistico." www.giornalediplomatico.it/comites-succ...

Thank you to everyone who came out to see my bilingual play MASTODASCIA last night! A fantastic audience and a beautiful array of languages with Scots and Neapolitan being the jewels in the crown. 👑 Huge thanks to Derrick McClure for being such mesmerising chorus. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🙏 💙

A salient snippet from my Neapolitan lecture at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland last Wednesday.

This coming Wednesday, at the University of Edinburgh. Huge thanks to Dr Daniela Sannino for inviting me and the Department of European Languages and Cultures for hosting the event.

Neapolitan, Scots, Yiddish, Ainu and Romani are on the way out. Unless we do something about it, of course. blog.gts-translation.com/2023/03/21/f...

So what’s a Deus Ex Machina? And why is one featuring Maradona’s Napoli jersey being delivered to the Tron Theatre in Glasgow? 🎭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🌋 www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod... 🎟 🎫

Pe accattà ’e bbigliette ncoppa a internet: www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod... 🎫 🎟️ Oppure pe telèfono: +44 (0)141 552 4267. MASTODASCIA è finanziato c’ ‘o contribbuto ’e COMITES Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Thanks for sharing news of my play, Bellahouston Academy! 🙏 Never a day goes by when I don’t feel fortunate and proud of teaching at Bella. ❤️

Tickets are now on sale! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 ⚽️ 🇦🇷 💙 📚 🔨 🪚 🪜 www.tron.co.uk/shows/mastod...

Cu Neil McClelland stammatina simmo state ô Teatro Tron ’e Glasgow pe vedé ’a Changing House addó ô 17 ’e Uttobbre pròssimo se rappresentarrà ’a traggedia dinto a duie atte Mastodascia.

Mastodascia - Fri 17 October 2025 - Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Tickets on sale soon!

«Nosotros tenemos más necesidad de Che Guevara, del lenguaje y de revolucionarios de la literatura que de letrados de la revolución». Julio Cortázar

Listen to Distinguished Professor Ingrid Piller's inspiring words about using the resources researchers are given to "pay it forward" as she accepts her 2025 Alexander-von-Humboldt Professorship Award on this @languageonthemove.bsky.social post. ⬇️ www.languageonthemove.com/alexander-vo...

Ughhh. Check out my 2024 paper and learn why this is nonsense!

Since the master bigots who have shamelessly added the racial slur 'Napoli' to the Italian language dictionary do not have the guts to do it, I have borrowed John Steinbeck's illustration of the term 'Okie' from 'The Grapes of Wrath' to clarify the meaning of…

"The decision to adopt one tongue and stop using another is not neutral; it is tied, inevitably, to power and prestige. … Language revitalisation is thus one part of a broader struggle for linguistic justice, which embraces the ability to thrive in one’s language of choosing" aeon.co/essays/langu...

I was very glad and proud to produce the English translation and subtitles for ’A Figliata (The Delivery), a bilingual Neapolitan-Italian short documentary by Serbian artist Slobodanka Ciric... youtu.be/GhDvkgFyado?...

What an informative @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast by @empacheco.bsky.social about better ways to work with atypical language users! ⬇️

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Tazin Abdullah speaks to Massimiliano Canzanella. The conversation delves into the history of the Neapolitan language and the interplay of culture, race, and national identity that… goodpods.com/podcasts/new...

For Scott McTominay, the Neapolitan language and culture assimilation is complete. 💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌋 #mcfràtemo #mcmybrother

This animation film is indeed poetry. A huge thank you to the amazingly talented director Arron Quinn 💐 for giving our language a wonderful chance to shine: ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe in Neapolitan. #neapolitanlanguage #dialettonapoletano #linguanapoletana youtu.be/HgOf47MjNbQ?...

How the Italian ‘parla bene’ or ‘speak properly’ continues to perpetrate evil on Neapolitan schoolchildren and their parents/carers. Language oppression is one of the most diabolical forms of violence…

Professor Magnus Course from the University of Edinburgh on the fundamental role played by my novels securing a future for the Neapolitan language.

In perfectly Orwellian style, at the University of Naples (Italy) Federico II, there is a department dedicated to the promotion of bilingualism; yet the same department is concurrently denying the possibility for Neapolitans to also speak their L1 in the classroom…

Did you know about the Neapolitan language? I didn’t, until I spoke to my wonderful guest @mcanzanella.bsky.social about language activism and preserving the Neapolitan language against all odds on this @languageonthemove.bsky.social podcast! ⬇️ www.languageonthemove.com/lingua-napol...

There is much more to Neapolitan Language and Culture than the racialising gaze of Elena Ferrante and Roberto Saviano... even AI knows it.

In Naples, the artistic genius of a native speaker of Neapolitan by the name of Pino Daniele is being celebrated. Yet the ‘Napoli bene’ – the Italian speaking and therefore ‘well-to-do’ people on the right-hand side – appropriated the event and made sure…

The expansive value of language activism and preservation in a sea nutshell. An amazingly inspiring person and story. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Che ato le putesse maie augurà a na guagliona eccezionale – patuta ’e Taylor Swift – ca chesta semmana fa diciotto anne? #nuncrésceremaie 🎂 🪄 ❤️ What else could I wish such an amazing girl – and Swiftie – who will be turning eighteen this week? #nevergrowup

Could bringing oppressed languages to the stage help save them? Last night, in Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 , @neilmcc91.bsky.social and I had a first go at it. #bilingualism #heritagelanguages #LinguisticDiversity

Can bilingual drama performances help save languages? Alan Spence’s masterpiece The Sailmaker to return to the stage as ’O Mastodascia – a Neapolitan adaptation by Massimiliano Canzanella.

On the way to Edinburgh to meet Alan Spence. 🚂 When The Sailmaker 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 meets ’O Mastodascia 🌋. Si uno vo ’o permesso pe adattà l’òpera ’e nu grande scrittore scozzese, amMAKARo ha da tènere ’a crianza ’e ce ’o gghì a cercà ’a vicino.

VUIE FASCISTE GIÀ ÂTE PERZO (All you fascists are bound to lose) ô viulino antifascista (on the anti fascist fiddle) 🎻 Jamie Wilson ‘All you fascists’ - words by Woody Guthrie

International Mother Language Day! Good time to shout out the fantastic team of LangDentity, an online language school supporting the maintenance of Shona and Ndebele in the diaspora www.instagram.com/reel/DFXNtTA...