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#1384: Germany's word of the year is always interesting to follow, but the spin-offs are often more fun. Jugendwort des Jahres (youth word otY) i heard about because Tagesschau's presenter, Susanne Daubner, stepped down and had to come back due to popular demand this year. those are mostly slang from a few years ago tho, kinda like the Oxford WotY. more apt is the Unwort des Jahres (un-word otY): these are often words that package or hide infringements of human rights recently popularised and applied wrongly in the news. 2020 was Corona-Diktatur, 2021 was Pushback (as in what you do to refugees at the border...), then Klimaterroristen (climate terrorists) and Remigration. on a lighter note, there's also the Anglizismus des Jahres: eg, 2021 had boostern (to get a (COVID) booster) with runner-ups of Long Covid, QR-Code, cringe, and woke. these are all the German btw - i'm not translating. my favourite was 2019 "OK Boomer", implying that's one word. kinda is