The “Smombies” are among us – saarbruecker-zeitung.de

The Youth Word of the Year in 2015 criticized the excessive and inappropriate use in everyday smartphone

Every year, the “Youth Word of the Year” announced. Every year is debated whether young people really talk like that. This year’s winning word was not even known to all in the jury. <- ! (Ver & ouml; ffentlicht November 14, 00:00) ->

The new “Youth Word of the Year” is confusing – in adolescents and even among those who have chosen the term winner. It alludes to the function of smartphones and is called: “Smombie”. “Smombie? Never heard of, “says the 18 year old Friedrich harvester field, member of the federal student conference. He is not alone.

According to the jury is the word that was named yesterday in Munich on behalf of the Langenscheidt publishing house, a combination of smartphone and zombie. It describes someone who will notice nothing of his environment, because he constantly stares at his mobile phone.

“Smombie is my favorite word,” said juror Ilknur Brown. “It describes precisely today’s self-evident to many people in dealing with the smartphone.” But also for “Bravo” -Chefredakteurin Nadine Nordmann and Youtube-known twins “The Lochis”, all three also members of the jury, the word was new.

Roder Field says he knows that with “Smombie” described phenomenon. On the music streaming service Spotify will repeatedly warned how dangerous it could be if the world no longer perceive around them thanks smartphone. That is why it was already justified to make this phenomenon for Youth Word of the Year. “But in my circle of friends use the word no.”

Since 2008, leaves the Langenscheidt Publishing elect the “Youth Word of the Year” to “100 percent youth language” to promote the lexicon. And every year kindled a debate about whether young people really speak. An exception is because the phrase “Are you running” which won last year, and of the one or the other young man actually said that he was coming back and back into his daily routine before.

“I think of the whole action is not so much – except that it is an extremely successful marketing campaign, to which one can only congratulate Langenscheidt, “says the chairman of the German Language Society, Peter Schlobinski. “Smombie” push at least from a certain zeitgeist, because you can see time and again that young people are fixated on their smartphone. “The word perhaps has a certain symbolic value, but does not seem to be widespread me.” Schlobinski asked about “youth word” -Wahlen his students time and again, if they had heard the word before, says the linguist of the University of Hanover. The result: “80 or 90 percent had the word is not in the language, most do not even know.” Schlobinskis says: “This action is characterized in that it has nothing to do with the language of young people.”

In the second place, the jury chose the term “Earthporn” (earthen Porno) as a synonym for beautiful landscapes. In an online vote, the verb had “merkeln” located forward, which means something like “do nothing, make a decision, be no manifestation of itself.” The term “alpha-Kevin” who had long also played some time up front in the online voting, had been taken out of the race because no Kevin should be discriminated against. “Alpha-Kevin” stood for “the most stupid of all.” To select also were expressions like “rumoxidieren” as a synonym for chilling or “Tinderella” for a woman who excessively online dating platforms like Tinder uses.