'Aura' voted German Youth Word of the Year

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2024-10-19

Frankfurt (dpa) - The age-old concept of aura has narrowly beaten a term for a trend among young men from a migrant background and some streetwise blame-taking jargon in Germany's 2024 competition for the Youth Word of the Year. In a vote by the Langenscheidt publishing house, which publishes German dictionaries among other language reference works, the winning word "Aura," used to describe a person's presence and charisma, was announced live at......

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