The German Youth Slang 2012: Yolo & Komasutra

[Syt]

In Germany you have stuff like "Word of the Year", "Anti-Word of the Year" and since a few years "Youth Word of the Year".

The ranking this year:

1. YOLO! (You Only Live Once!)
2. FU! (Fuck you!)
3. Yalla! (From Arabic for "hurry up!")
4. to wulff (in reference to the ex-president's media affair: jabbering/ranting onto someone's voicemail)
5. Komasutra (the futile attempt of very drunk people to have sex with each other)

Previous winners:
2011: swag
2010: Niveaulimbo (Limbo dance of standards, referring to the lowering of the intellectual standards of upper classes)
2009: to hartz (reference to the Hartz IV unemployment benefits: to be unemployed and hang around doing nothing)
2008: Gammelfleischparty (reference to the Gammelfleisch scandal, where expired meat made it to kebab stands etc.: parties for people 30+)

[Liep]

How do Germans pronounce YOLO?

[Syt]

How do Germans pronounce YOLO?

[Jaron]

YOLO!

[Liep]

How do Germans pronounce YOLO?

As in, do you say it word by word or as YOLO? Some people here started saying lol, and it sounds horrible.

[Josquius]

FU has just reached Germany?
Komasutra I like

[Syt]

As in, do you say it word by word or as YOLO? Some people here started saying lol, and it sounds horrible.

Lol has been said by youths here for years. But yeah, I presume it's ponounced as one word.

[Duque de Bragança]

In Germany you have stuff like "Word of the Year", "Anti-Word of the Year" and since a few years "Youth Word of the Year".



3. Yalla! (From Arabic for "hurry up!")

Religious Arabic actually, a bit like Vaya con Dios. It's funny to see what German wiggers picked up from the Turks 

2008: Gammelfleischparty (reference to the Gammelfleisch scandal, where expired meat made it to kebab stands etc.: parties for people 30+)

That's my favourite one 

[merithyn]

YOLO was my 13-year-old girl's favorite word for about two moonths. It's now passe to her. FU has been around forever, as in since I was a kid.

Komasutra is awesome! It's too bad that I'm too old to use terminology like that anymore.

[viper37]

FU, do you pronounce it  "Foo" or "F-U"?

[Kleves]

This reminds me of a story about a Darwin award candidate:

Erwin McKiness, an aspiring Southern California rapper also known as Jew'elz and Inkyy, died in a  suspected drunk-driving crash after reportedly tweeting the phrase "YOLO" - "You Only Live Once" - a phrase popularized by rapper Drake's song "The Motto."

"Drunk af going 120 difting corners #F**kItYOLO," tweeted the 21-year-old McKiness just before he and his friends died in a car accident on Sept. 2 in Ontario, Calif., reports the San Bernardino Sun.

McKinness was accompanied in the car by Marquell Bogan, 23, and Dylan George, 20, Jonathan Watson, 21, and JaJuan Bennett, 23. Bogan died at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana, Calif. The others were pronounced dead at the scene.

While McKiness' tweet makes it sound as if he was behind the wheel, police said it was Watson who was driving, reports the paper.

According to police, the driver lost control of the 2005 Nissan Sentra after running a red light and slammed into a wall.

The police are still investigating the incident, but officers told the paper that there was a high likelihood alcohol was involved, based on the statements made before the crash.

The police were referring to the final tweet by @ink2flashyy, sent out at 1:20 a.m.

It read "Driving tweeting sipping the cup (expletive) yolo I'm turning it up."