“Sale”, “Date”, “Fake news” – in German, there are many terms from English. The Anglicism of the year 2018, according to a Jury: “gender-asterisk”.
The word “Gender,” has been named in Germany’s “Anglicism of the year 2018”. The Jury had so decided, because the notion of leaps and bounds in the public use of language have spread, said the linguist and jury Chairperson Anatol stefanowitsch. Alone in the year 2018, the frequency of the term have increased more than ten-fold, from 0.25 to 2.5 Occurrences per ten million words.
Recently, there were heated discussions as to whether the “gender-asterisk” possible way should be included in the official spelling.
“is of Central importance in the linguistic equal treatment”
in addition, the Central importance of have convinced, has taken the character and the word for that in the confrontation “with the difficult and highly controversial topic of the linguistic equal treatment of all genders,” said Stefanovich. The language of scientists from the Free University of Berlin welcomes the intention in the case of the names of Persons, to make genders beyond man and woman are visible.
