“Smash” is the youth word of the year. The term, like so many other words in the youth language, comes from English, it is mainly used as a verb (“smash”) and means something like “start something with someone”, “pick up someone” or “have sex with someone”. “. . The object of desire can also be a “smash” with which one has a small “smash” (rivalry).
In English, on the other hand, the word is used in the sense of “smash”, “smash” or “break”.
Replacing “bottomless” and “doer”
“Smash” clearly won with 43 percent of the vote in a vote by Langenscheidt-Verlag, the company announced in Stuttgart on Tuesday. Young people had previously voted for their favorite word in several rounds. In second place is “bottomless” (lousy, unbelievably bad) at 33 percent, third is “doer”, ie the term for someone who does things without hesitation (24 percent), who tackles something.
In general, according to Langenscheidt, the number of votes cast was in the high six-figure range. For the evaluation, however, only the votes of the participants between the ages of 10 and 20 were and are relevant. According to the publisher, their rate was 77 percent. Last year the number of votes was around 1.2 million.
Freestyle since 2008
Langenscheidt has been publishing the youth word of the year since 2008 – at the time the “Gammelfleischparty” (more than 30 party) won. Last year’s winner was “cringe” – the shame of others. Discriminatory and offensive terms of any kind will be removed by the publisher.
Source: Krone
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