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Young people, young people's language: decipher "dishonorable"!
I'm not cool.
I don't want to be either.
It's too strenuous for me.
The coolest thing I could say as a teenager was: cool.
I have always been suspicious of these professional individualists.
Markus Deggerich
, 50, is the patchwork dad of five children between the ages of 2 and 17.
He works part-time, hopes for a career in the kitchen and watches with amazement as his children and the best woman in the world answer life's big and small questions for him.
For example, I still don't understand how it could become urban fashion to run around with a woolen hat all the time, even at 30 degrees in the shade.
I don't think that's original, pretty, or cool.
I think that's stupid.
And with most of them: ridiculous.
While the permanent wool mainly adorns older Berliners who are crazy about youth and coolness, the U15s as an antithesis, so to speak, do not wear socks in sneakers and bare feet, even when the temperature is below zero.
I don't need to understand.
I have no idea about fashion.
I just don't care.
So I've always remained the little country boy who carries his brother's clothes on - and of course it was very uncool at school.
But what I understand something is language.
At least that's what I always thought.
Because I haven't understood K2 for a while.
At almost 14 years of age - she would say: "I'm 15 years old" - she has entered the risk area that is often played down as puberty (i.e. phase).
And in this country they speak a different language.
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