Meaning: with a lower-case i, someone who advocates seizing territory back* from another nation or state. With a capital, a member of a 19th century Italian political party which advocated the annexation of Italian-speaking districts from surrounding nations.
Usefulness: 2 (Slightly abstruse, but you'll get points from the politically inclined. Could be useful if you were interviewing Diego Marani, who likes to discuss the attempts of nation-states to co-opt language as identity and/or delineator of borders, and the way that the EU is - possibly - undoing that. Podcast here, or interview here. He's also attempted a universal language, albeit a Euro-centric one.)
Logofascination: 2 (From the Italian for 'unredeemed', as in 'unredeemed Italy'.)
In the wild: A Washington Post blogpost on the issues with a study that supposedly mapped 'racial tolerance'.
Usefulness: 2 (Slightly abstruse, but you'll get points from the politically inclined. Could be useful if you were interviewing Diego Marani, who likes to discuss the attempts of nation-states to co-opt language as identity and/or delineator of borders, and the way that the EU is - possibly - undoing that. Podcast here, or interview here. He's also attempted a universal language, albeit a Euro-centric one.)
Logofascination: 2 (From the Italian for 'unredeemed', as in 'unredeemed Italy'.)
In the wild: A Washington Post blogpost on the issues with a study that supposedly mapped 'racial tolerance'.