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“Refugees Welcome” is the Anglicism of the year 2015
The issue of refugees is all the rage. This is also reflected in the German language is reflected in: According to the “word of the year” also has the “Anglicism of the year” to do so.
The theme of the year 2015 is: “the refugees” was the word of the year is chosen, the word of the day is “do-gooder” and the Anglicism of the year is “Refugees Welcome”. The Jury called the decision a “self-confident answer to the age-old ‘foreigners out!'”. The term originated in the 1990s, but he had his final breakthrough until the year 2015. The Slogan broke away from its original activist context, and became the figurehead of a lived welcome. Today, we find the slogan on T-Shirts, flyers and stickers, and conveys to the every day, in Germany, incoming refugees, a Signal of openness to the world.
The second and the third place occupy the Wortendung “(e)xit” and the term “spoilers”. The Wortendung comes from the term “Grexit”, a fusion of Greece and Exit. Used for the first time, he was, as a Greek exit from the Euro area was discussed. With further Ausstiegsdiskussionen came more mergers: Spexit for Spain, Brexit for Britain, Eirexit for Ireland and the somewhat ironically-intentioned Säxit for Saxony. The latter coinage is a nod to the xenophobic Pegida movement and the right-wing extremism in the East of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Was for a long time THE specter of political reporting: the “Grexit”, the possible departure of Greece from the Euro zone
The spoilers says that someone (undesirable) with the core content of a book or film-supplies – and this experience foreshadows the the – or one like yourself would have made. The word derives from the English Verb “to spoil”, so to spoil. The Jury referred to “the spoilers” as a “beautiful proof of the fact that the German-speaking community, active and creative English Lehngut into German integrated”.
Language in change
The Anglicism of the year (2014) was “Blackfacing”: the controversial practice, white people, dark-skinned make-up. For example, make up some carolers your face black in order to symbolize that one of the Holy Three kings, dark-skinned. The Anglicism of the year 2013 was the suffix “-gate” as a name for a scandal. This puts the suffix on the Watergate scandal from 1972 onwards: Under the presidency of Republican Richard Nixon broke FBI and CIA agents in the offices of the Democrats that stole secret documents and listened to the phone lines. Perhaps the most famous example is the “Nipplegate” of 2004, as during the Halbzeitshow of the Superbowl momentarily Janet Jackson’s breast on live television was to be seen. In 2012, the choice fell on “Crowdfunding”. The word describes the possibility of the Internet in a specified time frame for a project to raise money to realize it.
ski/nf (dpa, www.anglizismendesjahres.de)