American Italian

[littlebitca]

I have accepted the use of Torino during the Olympics, primarily because it is the name of the city as spoken by the inhabitants. That said, what is wrong with this sentence:

"After the break we will be returning to the Stadio Olimpico for more of the opening ceremonies"?

Are they speaking English? To an English speaking audience? Yes? Then I believe the English language has two perfectly good words to use here: Olympic and Stadium.

Comments

[atpolittlebit.livejournal.com]

Maybe it would work better if they could say it without breaking into a sudden overdone Italian accent for two words? It does make one wonder if they'll carry this over when the language of the host country isn't Latin-based.

And what makes you think I'd come back from Paris? ;-)