La quarta bozza / snippets

“The publishers of Langenscheidt dictionaries announced their young person’s word of the year (Jugendwort 2008). They chose the word Gammelfleischparty. It’s unflattering youth slang for a gathering of people aged over 30. The word may be translated as “spoiled meat party”. Gammelfleisch has been in the news this year because of a scandal involving meat packers who were supplying kebab restaurants with products past their sell-by date. The runner up was Bildschirmbräune, meaning “screen suntan”, for the notoriously pasty faces of computer geeks. The words were chosen through a poll of young people on a German Web site.”