kaia on Nostr: German suffers from a netherlandification where younger Germans lose their native ...

German suffers from a netherlandification where younger Germans lose their native vocabulary and replace it with English words, e.g. instead of saying "Mann", they say "Dude", instead of "betrügen" they use "cheaten".

Especially when discussing technical topics, using the German vocabulary is seen as uneducated, cringe or unprofessional.

It's my impression that young people especially have an extremely limited vocabulary, half consisting of more-or-less incorrect English loanwords replacing a perfectly fine German one.

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