“Corona Pandemic” is the 2020 “Word of the Year”

• “Corona Pandemic” has been named 2020 “Word of the Year” by the Society for the German Language.
• “Lockdown” came in second, as the company announced in Wiesbaden on Monday.

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The term “Corona-Pandemie” has been named Word of the Year 2020. The composition denotes that dominant theme for most of the yearsaid the Society for the German Language in Wiesbaden on Monday. Linguistically, the term represents a Large number of new word formationsthe jury justified its decision.

Eight of the ten words of the year have a direct reference to the pandemic. The term came in second in this year’s ranking. “Emergency closure”, which refers to politically determined measures to restrict social contacts. The social and psychological consequences that cannot be remedied financially cannot yet be foreseen. The word “Conspiracy tale” followed in third place

“Corona pandemic” follows “respected” and “hot weather”

A jury regularly votes in favor of the campaign. ten words and phrases representing the political, economic and social life of a year linguistically determined in a special way to have.

The terms come from a collection of several thousand specimens from various third-party media and submissions. Last year was “Respectful” was named “Word of the Year” in 2018 “Hot weather”.

Suggestions for Unword of the Year revolve around Corona

A.M 12th of January then the “Unword of the Year” is also chosen. Words that violate the principles of human dignity or democracy, that discriminate against social groups, or that are euphemistic, obscuring, or misleading formulations are reprimanded. Pure swear words don’t count.

According to the jury, this year’s focus of the pandemic is on the choice of language for the coronavirus. So far the suggestions are, for example “Alarmism”, “Systemling”, “Crown Dictatorship”, “Wirrologists” or “Covidioten”. Most of the suggestions so far are with 88 for “systemically relevant” it was received in connection with a perception of lack of recognition by limiting the confinement, explains a jury spokeswoman.

Despite the need to determine who can open and who cannot, this is seen as a disastrous signal for an evaluation. There are 31 suggestions for “Opening discussion orgies”.

Migration is another theme this year. So there are 31 suggestions for “Sponsoring Deportation”. They were also subjected “Anchor children” Y “Migrationsabwehr”. Outside of the topics of crown and migration, there were presentations such as “Pork jam”, “nuclear involvement” or “The victim vindicates the ideology”.

(AFP / dpa / lag / awa)

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