article_snippet: it's clear that many Italians are clueless on grammar and don't even know how to use verbs properly.
article_snippet: Evening news bulletins are full of speakers and commentators making grammatical errors and even mispronouncing words.
article_snippet: Now they've forgotten what a conjunctive verb is, mistake adjectives for nouns and write Machiavelli with a double "c.
article_snippet: " Oh -- and they don't know how to break words into syllables.
article_snippet: The "ars mnemonica" -- the art of exercising one's memory, that boring yet useful technique which implies rote learning of phrases, lyrics, novels and even entire epics -- belongs to the past.
article_snippet: If you don't sharpen mental skills, how can there be good writing?