When winter broke out recently, CSU General Secretary Martin Huber also reached for a snow shovel, as could be seen on the seniors’ channel Facebook. “Now it’s time to shovel snow,” he wrote and thanked the emergency services across the country. In his eagerness, however, Huber had ignored the fact that native Bavarians were shoveling the snow. It is more likely to be shipped in Hamburg and Berlin. Shortly afterwards, Prime Minister Markus Söder posted his steaming lunch dish on Instagram: beef roulade with red cabbage and mashed potatoes. His conclusion: “Very tasty!” Now delicious is considered an extremely unpopular word in this country. For language-sensitive people, it is evidence of native language bankruptcy. In the case of the roulade, for example, the adjective tasty would have been a suitable alternative. The Bavarian Language Association reacted to the two politicians’ messages quite annoyed: “In any case, linguistically, Bavaria is degenerating into a Berlin 2.0.”
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The magic word in football today is boys. From the Bundesliga to the small sections of the F-youth, there are only boys. The speech bubbles of the professionals are immediately copied in the amateur leagues and in the youth sector. Where footballers once played, today only boys play. Someone like Franz Beckenbauer was once allowed to say to the professionals: “Buam, let’s go out and spuits Fußboi”! Coach Max Merkel called his players boys, sometimes donkeys and idiots, which wasn’t good either. But the ball artists of that time were undoubtedly more than boys, namely emperors, geniuses, bombers, zampanos, terriers, dribblers and iron feet. Football used to produce the greatest linguistic images. Everything is over, now there is uniformity.