One more reason Germany is cooler than you.

[Lux Aorta of the 40 D]

We encompass the spirt of the word.


http://mobile.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/germany/120214/academics-vote-shitstorm-germans-best-english-loanword

[Nephew Twiddleton]

But we Anglophones invented the word.

That's like saying white people are cool because they stole Rock and Roll.

[Lux Aorta of the 40 D]

Yea we did invent the word, but its use by mainstream media in the US is not accepted. Whereas in Germany it is used on their nightly news.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

But do they say shitstorm or scheissesturm? I once heard a japanese swear on the x files.

[Lux Aorta of the 40 D]

Shitstorm as it is said in American.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Im not sure what germnays censorship laws are but one can easily get away with profanity from another language i think.

[Lux Aorta of the 40 D]

Not in the US. I have heard many songs/teevee programs that have bleeped the offending foreign words.


But then again Sublime gets played a lot of times uncensored.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Im trying to think now if ive ever seen a broadcast of the south park movie and if they edit the essen meine scheisse bit and the references to german scheisse porn

[Lux Aorta of the 40 D]

On Comedy Central they have unless it is the late night Saturday showing. The station usually skips over the schissen, but the idea is still implied.

[Doktor Howl]

Not in the US. I have heard many songs/teevee programs that have bleeped the offending foreign words.


But then again Sublime gets played a lot of times uncensored.

Out here in Tucson, they radio-edit EVERYTHING.

Which, of course, has destroyed the artistic integrity of many works.  Rehab's The Bartender Song was the perfect depiction of the American Nightmare at the redneck level, and it was Disney-fied by local sensors, as well as that fat fucking useless prick, Hank Williams Jr, who shoe-horned a cameo and then made them rewrite it...Because swear words in a song about alcoholism, domestic violence, and the US prison system would just be inappropriate, one presumes.

[Doktor Howl]

This is, of course, symtomatic of the faux-moralism that America has always been in love with.  10 murders in an hour is good television, but an exposed boob is a $100,000 fine.  Sending your kids off to die for Halliburton is "patriotic", but swearing in a song about horror and doom is somehow a cardinal sin.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Yeah. We cant have any naughty synonyms for excrememnt on tv. Thats just too uncivilized...

[AFK]

Tell me about it, I was over at my in-laws this past weekend.  My father-in-law was watching some NCIS re-run where they had all of these "meat puzzles" in a morgue.  Basically a bunch of dead people who were dismembered and, well, turned into meat puzzles.  This was like 2:00 P.M.

That stuff passes, but like you say, 2 seconds of Janet Jackson's boob causes all kinds of shit. 

If my son had to be exposed to one or the other I know I'd feel a lot better him seeing a flash of a boob.  For one, it's a lot easier to explain to a kid that young. 

[Triple Zero]

But do they say shitstorm or scheissesturm? I once heard a japanese swear on the x files.

Shitstorm. It was voted "Anglicism of the year". An Anglicism is an English loanword, so it's not translated, just used in every day language. If it's a verb it'll be conjugated by the German rules for verbing, hence "leaken" was another nominee, the Germanized loan-root of the English verb "to leak" (in the context of Wikileaks, etc).

What I do wonder about is whether the German language really has no proper term to express the idea of "shitstorm".

[El Sjaako]

But do they say shitstorm or scheissesturm? I once heard a japanese swear on the x files.

An Anglicism is an English loanword, so it's not translated, just used in every day language.

It has a slightly broader definition that that. From wikipedia: An Anglicism, as most often defined, is a word borrowed from English into another language. "Anglicism" also describes English syntax, grammar, meaning, and structure used in another language with varying degrees of corruption.

For example, I sometimes catch myself saying (in dutch) "Aan de andere hand...", and then get rightfully chastised by the people around me.