Choice: Youth Word of the Year 2010
Posted by Elke Freimuth under culture
(Picture: Lee Stephens)
Last year, "Hartz" - that being unemployed - word to the youth of 2009. Now the youth word 2010 can be selected. Berlitz has about 30 words that were submitted by young people and partly chosen by the editors, here put to vote. Off to the "folding Caribbean" or "change butcher" ...
Among the 30 words are "flat rate talk" phrases such as (without talking point and comma) and "egosurfen" (looking himself in the Internet). That the current language of youth development is also expressed in the original "folding Caribbean" (tanning) and the "change butcher" (Cosmetic Surgery Clinic) or the "Konsolero" (person who spends time with the game console). Whether other words such as "Arschfax" (underwear label that hangs out of his pants), "Crossi" (person with tanned, leathery skin) or the computer language ajar expressions such as "reset" (→ retract make) make the race remains to wait .
Last year 45,000 people took part in the election ...
