Der Wutbürger in Stuttgart 21 mit dem Sarrazin-Gen ist im Cyberwar mit wikileaks. Und das Schottern der Aschewolke mit der Vuvzuela ist wie Femitainment das unter den Eurorettungsschirm schlüpft. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (GfdS). Fremdschämen ist verhaltesnkreativ vor allem bei der Kabinenparty der humanen Abschiebung mit Türkenmilch und E-Card Urlaub. Ich werde auf [...]
Günther Öttinger famously declared a few years ago that English will become the global working language (“Englisch wird die Arbeitssprache”).So, his job as the EU commissioner for energy is certainly a great opportunity for him to use his English skills… But just watch for yourself: Günther Öttinger famously declared a few years ago that English [...]
A short guide for bloggers and journalists that write about EU affairs and are exposed to “Eurojargon“. Not only acronyms are an art form but also normal EU terminology can be tricky. Language plays an important role in constructing a certain image of the EU and journalists and bloggers should be aware of that. The [...]
Paul Watzlawick has died at the age of 85. I must say Invented Reality: How Do We Know What We Believe We Know? was one of the books that really influenced my scientific (constructivist) thinking. The book basically examines how individual, social, scientific, and ideological “realities” are constructed and suggests that reality is invented rather [...]
Every now and then a little language war breaks out in the EU institutions. Spain lobbies for Spanish to become one of the official working languages (at the moment: English, French and German) because it is one of most spoken languages worldwide. Germany (sometimes together with Austria) claims that German became more popular after the [...]



