“hot time” has been voted word of the year 2018. The society for German language (GfdS) announced on Friday. The term does not circumscribe only the extremes of summer, but refer also to climate change. It should also be “hot time” with the phonetic Similarity to “ice age” is an interesting word-formation, was the opinion of the language experts in Wiesbaden.
In the second place, the Jury chose “mobile Republic”. At the latest since the German election campaign in 2017, the part of bad coverage with mobile radio on Land is a political issue. Behind the term “anchor centers” – according to the experts, a kind of acronym, a word formed from the initial letters or syllables of other words.
“anchor” is not available for security à la “anchor”, but is made up of the initial letters of several words: (the future), k(ommunale distribution), E(decision) and R(ückführung). These are the tasks to fulfill these centres combined.
On the fourth place, it managed a whole sentence: Under the Slogan “We are more,” responded a wide Public to a right-wing rally with the xenophobic Attacks in Chemnitz, Germany, this summer.
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With the “criminal citations” on rank five is the language scientists refer to the case Maaßen. The dispute over the Ex-protection of the Constitution CEO Hans-Georg Maassen brought the Grand coalition in Berlin to the brink of collapse. After Maaßens controversial opinions on the events in Chemnitz wanted to be inside appoint Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) originally to the Secretary of state in the Ministry of the interior – what would formally have been a promotion. In the meantime, Maassen was sent into temporary retirement.
On the places six to nine, the Jury chose “care robots”, “Diesel-driving ban”, “trade war” and “Brexit-Chaos”. Last in the list is the mother of all problems “is” – a Statement made by Seehofer to the refugee question.
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world weather organization in 2018, one of the four hottest years
The GfdS is a word of the year, named in 1971 for the first time. The company comes to terms, which have determined the political, economic and social life of language in a particular way. (dpa)
