Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku

Youth Word of the Year (Polish: Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku) is an annual poll organized by Polish Scientific Publishers PWN (Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN) since 2016. Its aim is to select the most popular words, expressions and phrases among young people in a given year.[1][2]

The contest is not necessarily won by the proposal that has been submitted by the largest number of participants. The winners in this poll are selected by a jury, evaluating the originality, creativity and linguistic correctness of the submitted proposals.[3][4] According to the rules, eliminated from the competition are words, which after an analysis by the jury, were considered vulgar, offensive, containing illegal content, inciting intolerance/violence, hate speech or violating good manners. Also eliminated from the competition are words that have already been awarded in previous editions.[3][4]

The youth word of 2016 was sztos, a word that means "something cool, amazing, fantastic".[5]

In 2017, xD won, although sztos and dwudzionek were submitted more times. The former, however, could not become the youth word of the year because it had already won in 2016, and dwudzionek dropped out because the PWN committee considered it a "poorly accepted purist idea" to replace the word weekend.[6] In addition, the word idea smartwica/smartfica, the neologism odjaniepawlić/odjaniepawlać and pocisk along with the related verb pocisnąć kogoś, were singled out.[7]

In 2018, the word of the year was dzban.[8] The words masny and prestiż were also honored. In the category of "interestingly constructed word", the words zwyklak and mamadżer were selected.[9]

In 2019, the plebiscite was won by the word alternatywka and on the podium were also the words jesieniara and eluwina, at the same time it was decided to disqualify the most frequently reported word p0lka.[10][11]

In 2020, the plebiscite was not decided. The jury found the most frequently submitted words to be "vulgar, mocking specific people, views, attitudes or gender".[12] Despite the lack of adjudication, the jury decided to honor the neologism tozależyzm.[13]

Results

Year 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
2016 sztos ogarnąć/ogarniać się beka/masakra[note 1]
2017 xD sztos dwudzionek
2018 dzban masny/masno prestiż/prestiżowy
2019 alternatywka jesieniara eluwina
2020 Contest not resolved - honorable mention of the word tozależyzm
2021 śpiulkolot naura twoja stara

Jury

The jury consists of:[14]

  • Prof. Dr. Marek Lazinski,
  • Prof. Dr. Ewa Kołodziejek,
  • Prof. Dr. Anna Wileczek,
  • Bartek Chaciński.

References

  1. ^ "Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku PWN". sjp.pwn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  2. ^ S.A, Telewizja Polska. "Youth Word of the Year-competition cancelled in controversial style". tvpworld.com. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  3. ^ a b "Regulamin plebiscytu". PWN. Archived from the original on 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  4. ^ a b "Regulamin plebiscytu". sjp.pwn.pl (in Polish). Archived from the original on 2020-11-27. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  5. ^ "Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku PWN". sjp.pwn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  6. ^ "Młodzieżowe słowo roku 2018. Wydawnictwo PWN przedstawiło wyniki plebiscytu [ZOBACZ]". Głos Wielkopolski (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  7. ^ "Co tam się odjaniepawla? PWN popisuje się RIGCZem i na młodzieżowe słowo roku wybiera „XD"". Wprost (in Polish). 2017-12-13. Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  8. ^ Chaciński, Bartek. "„Dzban" zostanie z nami na dłużej". www.polityka.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  9. ^ "Wybrano zwycięzcę plebiscytu na Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku 2018. PWN wybiera "Dzban"". gazetapl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  10. ^ "Rozstrzygnięcie plebiscytu Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku 2019! - Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku PWN". sjp.pwn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  11. ^ "Rozstrzygnięcie plebiscytu Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku 2019 – komentarz Marka Łazińskiego - Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku PWN". sjp.pwn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  12. ^ "Komunikat kapituły plebiscytu na Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku 2020 - Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku PWN". sjp.pwn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  13. ^ "Tozależyzm - Młodzieżowe Słowo Roku PWN". sjp.pwn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-06-01.
  14. ^ "Jury". sjp.pwn.pl (in Polish). Retrieved 2022-06-01.

Notes

  1. ^ ex aequo[clarification needed]