For the 25th time will be announced the word of the year this year. Among thousands of entries, the jury has now given the word of the year 2015 known: It reads “Goody Two Shoes”

In support of that:

“The word ‘do-gooder’ indeed has long been in use and was in 2011 already chosen by the jury as a second non-word, but it is related to the refugee issue in the last year has become particularly prominent. As a ‘do-gooders’ were in 2015 in particular those abused who do volunteer work in the refugee assistance or who oppose attacks on refugee homes , With the accusation ‘do-gooder’, ‘Gutbürger’ or ‘do-gooders’ tolerance and helpfulness are flat rate defamed as naive, stupid and unworldly, as a helper syndrome or moral imperialism. The term ‘do-gooder’ no longer thriving here only in the right-wing populist camp as a rallying cry, but is also used by journalists in mainstream media as a blanket criticism of a “conformism of the good”. [...] The use of this expression, thus preventing a democratic exchange of factual arguments “

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were reprimanded addition “homework” (in regard to Greece) and “Verschwulung”

<. p> In the Jury of institutionally independent action “word of the year” sit the four linguist Prof. Dr. Nina Janich / TU Darmstadt (spokesperson), PD Dr. Sven Kersten Roth (University of Dusseldorf), Prof. Dr. Jürgen Schiewe (University Greifswald) and Prof. Dr. Martin Wengeler (University of Trier) and the author and freelance journalist Stephan Hebel as annually changing member of the cabaret artist Georg Schramm was in this year involved

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