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.

Apache-2.0 Calibration data only; no tools required. Network access helps for usage checks.

Instructions

Overview

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.

Rules

AI tells

Sourcing confidence: solid; convergent across independent Italian-language sources.

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".

Translationese from English

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

Reviewed 2026-10-12. AI tells: navigaweb.net, fastweb.it, compilatio.net, marcoilardi.it. Norms: Accademia della Crusca.

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