Under the Sign of the Crisis – Word of the Year: Candidates Stuck, Voting Running

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Inflation, corruption and excess profit – with these candidate words it soon becomes clear that the election for the word of the year 2022 is determined by the energy crisis and political affairs. The war in Ukraine and the climate crisis also play a role. This year people are looking in vain for terms related to the corona pandemic. You can vote from now on and until November 29. The announcement will follow on December 1.

The Association for Austrian-Germans has again drawn up a list of candidates in collaboration with the APA. Words that the Austrians noticed positively or negatively since the end of last year could be sent to the jury in advance. Looking for the successor of shadow chancellorthe word of the year 2021.

Climate bonus, leniency status, sanctions
This year, in addition to the conditions already mentioned, there are, among other things: climate bonus and climate map for optional. Not least thanks to Thomas Schmid leniency status made it on the candidate list, the sanctions stand like this Ukraine war on the list. the Electricity price brake – the government measure against the huge increase in household electricity costs – and the term antisocial networksthat refers to the negative phenomena of social networks such as hate messages or cyberbullying, complete the candidates for the word of the year.

Nonsense: From Warming Mushrooms to Putin Understanders
Candidates for, among other things, the nonsense of the year forbidden to think, on time and energy crisis as successor to last year’s winner Corona party. Add to that Beinschab Tool or the Heizschwammerl. The war in Ukraine shaped by the conditions Kamikaze drone and Putin understander also the search for the nonsense word of the year. Join cultural appropriation, Pull factor and Fully encompassing mentality.

Sayings of the Year: Van der Bellen, Zeilinger, Landau
As almost every year, Federal President Alexander Van der Bellen was on the list of candidates for the statements of the year. This year, “It can’t all be true” from his speech on corruption and appointments (see video below) is up for debate. With him came Nobel Prize winner Anton Zeilinger with “You have to rely a little on your spinning mills” and Caritas president Michael Landau with “There is enough for everyone, but not for everyone’s greed”.

“Alcohol or Psychotropic Drugs”
Disclaimer of the year could be Chancellor Karl Nehammer’s statement: “If we continue like this, there are only two decisions for you afterwards: alcohol or psychotropic drugs!” (see tweet). He faces competition from Interior Secretary Gerhard Karner with “empiricism, science is one thing, facts are another.” The third candidate is Education Minister Martin Polaschek (all ÖVP), who repeatedly said so in a “ZiB 2” interview: “We need to look at that. / We’ll take a closer look at that in a moment. / We’re going to look very closely at that. / You have to look at it… / We’ll take a closer look at these numbers. / Let’s take another look at that. / I’d like to see it.”

voting is in progress
The word of the year for young people has traditionally had less to do with the big themes of the year. Eligible this year Brother (brother, friend, buddy), To dig (Salutation among friends, derived from “fat”), pass (Refusal to connect), safe (sure, guaranteed), the same (intended as permission) kill (for confident looking or acting), crush (start something with someone; also called the German youth word of the year), stable (cool, good) too their (suspicious). You can vote on oewort.at until the end of November.

Source: Krone

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