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19 added, 9 removed. Audit A to A.
---
name: content-locale-humanize-it
title: "Italian Native-Fluency Calibration"
description: "Per-language calibration anchors for detecting AI-slop and translationese in Italian (it) target text; auto-loads alongside content-locale-humanize when the target language is Italian."
license: Apache-2.0
- compatibility: "Extends content-locale-humanize's AI-Slop & Translationese dimension. Load both together — this file has no rubric of its own."
+ compatibility: "Calibration data only; no tools required. Network access helps for usage checks."
domains: content
rules:
- content(italian)
- match(\bit-(IT|CH)\b)
- match(\bItalian\b)
- match(italiano)
- semantic(check if this Italian translation sounds native)
- semantic(eliminate translationese from this Italian text)
---
## Overview
- Sourced calibration anchors for Italian, feeding `content-locale-humanize`'s AI-Slop & Translationese dimension. This is a calibration aid, not the checklist — reason natively beyond it (see the core skill's "why structure, not word lists" section).
+ Calibration anchors and current norms for Italian (it-IT, it-CH), feeding content-locale-humanize's dimensions. A calibration aid, not the checklist; reason natively beyond it.
- ## Instructions
+ ## Rules
- Sourcing confidence: solid — convergent across multiple independent Italian-language sources.
+ ### AI tells
- Power adjectives: dinamico, efficiente, innovativo, stimolante, cruciale, fondamentale.
+ Sourcing confidence: solid; convergent across independent Italian-language sources.
- Connector pileup: inoltre, tuttavia, nonostante, quindi, perciò, dunque, di conseguenza.
+ - Power adjectives: dinamico, efficiente, innovativo, stimolante, cruciale, fondamentale.
+ - Connector pileup: inoltre, tuttavia, nonostante, quindi, perciò, dunque, di conseguenza.
+ - Stock phrases: "È interessante notare che", "Un aspetto cruciale", "Vale la pena menzionare", "In conclusione" / "per concludere" closing almost every piece.
+ - Overrepresented: optare, efficienza, agevolare, massimizzare, integrazione, ottimizzazione, "soluzione efficace", "scenario in evoluzione".
- Stock phrases: "È interessante notare che" (opens elaborations), "Un aspetto cruciale" (opens central paragraphs), "Vale la pena menzionare" (flags minor details as significant), "In conclusione" / "per concludere" (closes almost every response).
+ ### Translationese from English
- Overrepresented nouns/verbs: optare, efficienza, agevolare, massimizzare, istituzione, integrazione, ottimizzazione, "soluzione efficace", "scenario in evoluzione".
+ - False friends: "in accordo a" (secondo), "realizzare" for rendersi conto, "eventualmente" meaning finally, "processare" for elaborare, "supportare" for essere compatibile con.
+ - Passive and possessive pileups; Title Case headings.
+ ### Current norms
+
+ - Accents and apostrophes: perché, poiché (acute), è (grave); "un po'", "qual è" without apostrophe.
+ - Register: tu for most consumer tech, Lei (capitalized) for formal and institutional copy; hold one.
+ - Inclusive language: the Accademia della Crusca (2023 opinion for the Corte di Cassazione) advises against the asterisk and schwa, endorses feminine job titles (la ministra, l'avvocata), and accepts the unmarked masculine plural; a March 2025 Education Ministry circular excluded both signs from school communications. Follow the client guide.
+
## References
- navigaweb.net, fastweb.it, compilatio.net, marcoilardi.it.
+ Reviewed 2026-10-12. AI tells: navigaweb.net, fastweb.it, compilatio.net, marcoilardi.it. Norms: [Accademia della Crusca](https://accademiadellacrusca.it/).