Tag: Language criticism
Scratcher’s vocabulary: Ilse Bilse, nobody wants… – Bavaria
Trenzerbeidl An older gentleman recently said in a pub that he had picked up his grandson from daycare. Another boy was crying miserably there, which is why he affectionately called…
Customs and language: Save the roll
Contrary to popular belief, proper High German is also spoken in the south. That’s why the Bavarian Language Association and the Bavarian State Association for Homeland Preservation are launching the…
Karl Kraus vs. comma errors: More and more printing errors everywhere?
A fabulous edition of their correspondence shows how the satirist Karl Kraus fought against this with his printer and publisher Georg Jahoda. source site
Do it: Boris Palmer and the question: “What else can one say? – Culture
Most recently, it was again the Mayor of Tübingen, Boris Palmer, who used the word five times in less than a minute. At a Frankfurt conference, Palmer was therefore insulted…
Genders and gender language: Do they reflect the relationships? – Culture
The argument about gender language may be raging because the language is changing – but not the circumstances in which it is spoken. From Hilmar Klute Ah, the gender language:…
Russia behaves like an enemy, not like an enemy – opinion
Beware of the demonization of Russia, the spectators like to say at this war – meanwhile the Russian leadership insults the Europeans as “pigs”. So you have to call an…
Word creation by Sascha Lobo: What is a “boomer bang dachshund”? -Panorama
Author Sascha Lobo invented a new term for people who turn their noses up at Anglicisms. Here writes someone who feels addressed. The commentator Sascha Lobo, known primarily from electric…
On the death of Wolf Schneider: Prominent journalists and authors – media
Wolf Schneider will always be with many journalists and authors. His rules of good language have shaped generations. “Short and to the point – let the frogs croak” – that’s…
What exactly is “unbureaucratic help”? – Culture
How exactly do you imagine that when the victims of disasters are promised unbureaucratic help? Does the interior minister fly over the affected areas in a helicopter and pour the…