Take a look at this poster, which is all over the city right now. It starts out fine, going along in German, and then all of a sudden it closes the deal with an English sentence. Now, we keep asking ourselves, when and why did the Germans decide that their language wasn't quite good enough ? English words pop up everywhere, not just when there's a good reason (that is, no German word exists, such as 'laptop'.) Some here are beginning to view it as a problem, including the Chancellor Angela Merkel who's had some sharp words to say about it, but I've the impression that most young people just imbibe it, maybe not so much as the language of the U.S. and Great Britain but as the language of the world.
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