Rescue routine
“Rescue routine” was chosen as Word of the Year 2012 in Germany. It is supposed to " express the innumerable measures against the euro crisis ".
The jury of the Society for German Language chose the word on December 14, 2012 in first place on the grounds that it was “not only the topic of the unstable European economic situation that has been ongoing for several years”, but “also the numerous and recurring measures that have so far been undertaken to stabilize ”. In addition, the contradicting meaning of the two word components is linguistically interesting: “While a rescue in the real sense represents an acute, initiative, but completed action, routine - as a loan word from French - includes a recurring, if not permanent, and experience-based one Development."
The Germanist Jochen A. Bär pointed out that rescue routine initially describes a computer program as a technical term in computer science and computer technology, “which in the event of a fault, e.g. B. a power failure, automatically backs up data so that they are not lost ”. A rescue routine can also be used "if someone has often practiced certain rescue procedures and therefore has mastered them safely even under stress". However, “not having to think” also harbors a danger, since in addition to the “good routine that helps in everyday life” there is also a bad routine: “Even in situations that require special thought, one tends to to be satisfied with the standard program. ”Exactly this aspect would“ be found - as a criticism - in the way it was used in which the rescue routine became Word of the Year 2012. The noun appears in connection with the efforts to find a way out of the European sovereign debt crisis. "
The election was often critically received by the media. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung pointed out that the word "is hardly in someone's [sic] mouth". "Only Euro-skepticism " is routinely represented . According to the Stuttgarter Zeitung , the expression had no relevance in the search engines before the award ceremony . You have to dig “pretty deep” in the archives to find evidence of the existence of the word. There would be "the CDU politician Wolfgang Bosbach , who mentioned the rescue routine in March during an interview with the news agency dpa" and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, "which headed a text about financial aid for struggling euro countries with the headline 'Europe's rescue routine'" . Spiegel Online showed a first use in its archives "from 1975 about rescue at sea off German coasts".
Individual evidence
- ^ "Rescue routine" is word of the year 2012 , stern.de from December 14, 2012
- ↑ Press release on Word of the Year 2012 ( memento of December 18, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) by the Society for German Language , accessed on December 18, 2012
- ↑ Sprachwissen - Wort und Unwort des Jahres on duden.de, accessed on December 18, 2012
- ^ "Rescue routine" not routinely used , Lena Schipper in FAZ.net of December 14, 2012
- ^ Rescue routine , Christian Gottschalk in Stuttgarter Zeitung of December 15, 2012
- ↑ "Rescue Routine" is Word of the Year , Spiegel Online from December 14, 2012