Sale! Sale! Come in and find out! … and more! The older generation can actually only still shaking his head go through the pedestrian zones in Germany: no matter where you look, they understand hardly anything. All store stick and Flash English slogan”. The English language or rather parts of this is granted more and more inroads into the German language. It used to be called even discount”; Today, it is a sale”called.

Hardly any other language destroyed as extreme as the German language, by allowing prefers a different language. “” In some industries, there are just the English language such as for example in the computer industry: there we encounter terms and software”hardware”. This is also not a problem. Because this is a relatively new industry for the new concepts had to be invented. But why existing German words exchanged, although they exist for centuries and have proven themselves? Normal is that language changes and adjusts conditions, and also necessary, because only changing and living languages have a chance to exist. But a fast change is not observed even up to date according to various linguists.

But the biggest problem, which brings the language change with it, is that faulty knowledge is imparted. Everyone knows”the airbag, the US rescues from worse harm in a car accident. “Directly translated means including a bag” but is filled the bag with air, but with a highly explosive gas. We look forward to each EM and World Championships over the ever-popular public viewing”. Understood in England including a public Aufbarung one, most famous corpse. These examples show that we need to worry about about our language as the teacher always said: think first, then talk! “.” Everyone can do something to preserve our language: pause before each set and search for the correct German words and then use. That the English language is important, is out of the question. Through globalization, we need to talk frequently in the professional life of English, so this should continue from early on will be taught in the school. But these will be not more important than the mother tongue which is still a high value abroad. Adrian Jaksim