“Goody Two Shoes”: This is the word of the year 2015 – FOCUS Online

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The Unwort of 2015 is “do-gooder”. The have announced in Darmstadt linguists. The term commitment to refugees will defamed fixed price.

The term “do-gooder” used in connection with the refugee debate has been elected non-word of 2015. This was announced by the jury of the so-called speech critical action on Tuesday in Darmstadt.

As a “do-gooders” have been in the past year in particular those abused who do volunteer work in the refugee aid or oppose attacks on refugee homes, as the jury explained. With the accusation “do-gooder” would like the terms “Gutbürger” or “do-gooders” tolerance and helpfulness “flat rate as naive, stupid and unworldly, defamed as helper syndrome or moral imperialism”.

The term “do-gooder” According to language experts is flourishing not only the right-wing populist camp by journalists in key media used as a “battle cry”, but will as a lump criticizing a “conformism of the good”. The use of the term thus prevented by the jury considers a democratic exchange of factual arguments.

The jury of language Critical Action consists of four linguists from various universities and journalists. This year, it was not followed by the cabaret artist Georg Schramm.

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Members of from proposals that are sent to them. Last year was the insulting word “lies Press” used by supporters of the xenophobic Pegida demonstrations been elected word of the year.

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