Some 5,000
words including selfie, tablet and fake news are being added to the German
dictionary’s new edition, its head of editorial told dpa on Monday.
“It’s simply
a fact that many things from the Anglo-Saxon world appear in our lives when you
consider technological developments,’’ Kathrin Kunkel-Razum, head of editorial
for the Duden dictionary, said.
Duden is the
German equivalent to the Oxford English Dictionary.
While many
of the new words are related to technological developments, a handful is about
the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Postfaktisch,
German for post-factual, is being entered to refer to a political culture in
which debate is framed largely by appeals to emotion disconnected from the
details of policy.
Duden’s
first-ever edition published in 1880 had 27,000 words, while the newest
edition, which goes on sale has 145,000.
The previous
edition is from 2013.
Duden’s
editorial team famously added the word“ shitstorm” to that edition, which in
Germany is used to refer to a scandal. (dpa/NAN)
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