Last but not least: Cheers to the Slovakian language

In the advertising and communications industry, it is becoming increasingly difficult to understand a word without knowing English. And "Swiss German used to be spoken in Switzerland" is something you hear more and more often from older generations. But the Americanization of our language continues unabated. The Slovakian Ministry of Culture, on the other hand, now wants to protect the purity of its language with a drastic legislative proposal. Language offenders who break the rules of their mother tongue are to be fined up to 5,000 euros in future. The proposal is to be submitted to parliament in the near future. The ministry's justification for the proposal is the decline in language culture in the media and in the public sphere. Foreign words are used far too often, even if there is a corresponding Slovak word. However, the revised law would also criminalize grammatical and spelling mistakes. According to the proposed law, the prerequisite for punishment is the submission of a written complaint regarding a violation of the language law. However, this can be submitted to the Ministry of Culture by anyone. Slovakian media warned that this proposal would open up wide scope for arbitrary action by the authorities. If the Swiss government were to adopt the Slovakian law proposal, grandpa would probably be talking to his grandson more often again. And our offices would be inundated with far more complaints than the Cablecom hotlines.