Jekami

Jekami is an acronym for “Anyone Can Participate”.

The term “Jekami” is used when the openness or delimitation of a decision or an occasion is to be expressed. In the positive, this means that everyone can express their opinion or participate. In the negative, this means that further opinions are not desired (“this is not a Jekami”) or that no further participants are desired (“this is not a Jekami event”). The word often has a pejorative connotation .

The term is also used in a figurative sense, for example, to differentiate professional activities from "arbitrary or amateurish acts".

Especially in Swiss German as well as in Swiss High German, Jekami means events where everyone can contribute, no matter how inexperienced. A Jekami is therefore an amateur event , as an entertainment occasion it corresponds to the open stage .

Examples

“Jekami evening with short contributions from members and guests. 6.15 p.m. Basel Historical Museum "

- Program information : Swiss coin sheets . Swiss Numatic Society, Ed. 51–53, No. 201–211 (2001), p. 80.

"The web is a global Jekami (anyone can participate)."

- Karlheinz Pichler (Red.) : Lexicon of current technical terms from computer science and telecommunications . 8th edition, vdf Hochschulverlag AG at the ETH Zurich, Zurich 2005 (series: Computerworld), ISBN 3-7281-2994-1 , p. 56.

"Clear competencies are based on clear decisions and not on a« Jekami »(anyone can participate)."

- Christian Belz : tension brand. Brand management for complex companies . Gabler-Verlag, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-8349-0224-1 , p. 37.

literature

• Ulrich Ammon: German dictionary of variants. The standard language in Austria, Switzerland and Germany as well as in Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, East Belgium and South Tyrol . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-11-016574-0 , p. 374.

Remarks

1. ↑ ^{a b} "Jekami" in Duden online