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Language critics have awarded the negative “phrase of the year” prize to the word “individual cases”.
"Even the" individual case "can be viewed as a euphemism," said the operators of the Floskelwolke web project, Udo Stiehl and Sebastian Pertsch, on Friday.
“But the police and politicians have invented an inglorious composition by playing down right-wing extremism in the authorities: the“ individual cases ”.
An internal contradiction that is extremely dangerous in our democratic constitutional state. "
The remaining places in the "Top Five" phrases went to the words "Corona opponent", "European solution", "Clan crime" and "Xenophobia".
The “phrase of the year” was “chosen” for the first time.
For six years the language and media-critical project Floskelwolke has been drawing attention to "clichés, phrases and other questionable formulations in German-language news texts".
Co-operator Pertsch emphasized that the line was "not to introduce anyone and instead focus on the words and phrases".
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For the “phrase of the year”, 178 suggestions with few duplicate entries were received, mostly from media professionals.
The phrase cloud makers finally made the final decision.
They emphasized that with the negative price they hoped that in the future, especially in the news, but also in journalism in general, they would use language in a more “sensitive and intelligent way”.