Confessions of an old “youth word” -Jurors – THE WORLD

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co-decide on the jury for the “youth word of the year” is a bit like to be national coach: No matter what decision you fall, there are still millions Stammtisch experts who know better. The good news, however: In only once quarreled year as opposed to occupation and tactics issues of national, if the Langenscheidt Publishing announces its results for the jury debate – this time is the winner Smombie, an insult for someone who continually zombie equal in his smartphone stares. And the number of those who make fun of the crowned word is getting smaller, because Germany has a young problem.

happy is assumed, the jury consisted only of old geezers who no longer noticed by the youth language, since dufte and schnafte as the measure of linguistic coolness were. This is of course nonsense. At least in the time that I was allowed to be a member of the committee, the young people were in the majority there. Four ripe experts were at least double compared to so many teens and early twenties. Still other young people had always something to complain about.

The criticism came regardless of what standards we had created. Decided to use a word that was commonly known and made it big in the year (for me it was always the most important criteria), then claimed always somebody, the word would be ancient and already out of fashion. This is what happened in 2011 and 2012 in Yolo Swag. They decided on an oriental foreign word from the hip-hop milieu as Babo (2013) or for secondary school students saying how’s with you (2014), had been fussy high school students on the cheek, the bleating, yet only proles would talk.

Every year, the estimated true Berliner linguist Anatol Stefanowitsch stirs again about the “youth word” on. He would himself know best as can be those jury decisions strange and contestable. It belongs but to a body that always chooses the “Anglicism of the Year” in January. 2015 decided Stefanowitsch & amp; Co for blackface. That was the face of 1001 more interesting and more widespread foreign words from the English a conceivable abseitige decision for an expression, the outside that university area where identity research crosses with theater studies, hardly anyone knows.

Smombie belongs level Limbo (2010) and Gammelfleischparty (2008, for a Ü30 Party) to the words in which more originality was honored as representativeness. It is a neologism that could have come also a comedian. Besides Tinderella (for a girl too much hanging around on the sex and relationship portal Tinder), it is among the ten nominated by online voting in a free vote candidates the second word in which resonates something like reflection on one’s own media behavior , Perhaps young people use the new magic channels but not so thoughtless as impute them anxious adults.

alone for such a category distinctions it was sometimes quite useful, that even a few older people were sitting with said historical educational background in the jury. This is also useful because the youth language tends to recycle itself. In elementary school my daughter ancient expressions are as horny, not in the mood or have the salutation age, all have come from the seventies, as popular as the nineties buzzword crass. And cool that now is common indeed already since the eighties, even use my three and a half year old twins.

Once I was also very surprised Mitjurorin about clarify that the phrase Do not panic! has been pretty safe introduced by Udo Lindenberg at the beginning of the seventies in the German language. I still remember how she wanted to know deeply astonished and skeptical: “And what did he say before you?” An interesting question that I “Stay calm! Do not get excited! Or something.” With answered.

Nevertheless, we have older judges always subject ourselves to the judgment of the younger ones, when it comes to the current youth language. No sentence was often than the question in the meetings: “truly one says that?” This year I was not there, but I doubt that less care and consideration has been expended. The criticism is as always a bit cheap.

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