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Spigel.de if I have not noticed the news on the radio, or something interests me more.
Among other things there's also a column Zwiebelfisch . I get upset every time again! Maybe because I'm studying linguistics. Language lives. Language changes. We are not talking as in the Middle Ages. We're talking not even like 50 years ago. It is today perhaps more slowly than before, because everything is written down somewhere, we have the dictionary and the like ... but all the same language changes. The genitive dies. It is used less and no books and Mecker tirades will change that.
There will always be loan-words. Words Germanized. window is not a German word, but who is stirring there still today on about it?
I am sure that everyone is allowed to speak as he wishes. I admit that in some forms or expressions to roll up my toenails, but that sit mostly personal taste.
Prescriptivism sucks.
Oh and something funny: in the city are back this way animal rights activists. The guys who say the money you would give them Tiren benefit, but strangely, always disappears. One of them said Birgit and me by saying, "You are determined and animal friends!" We: "No!" He: "You can see that you also, that their animal friends do not since." Somehow an interesting formulation:).
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