Study: Bundestag speeches more understandable than expected. Most understandable speech of the budget week was given by Education Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP), who received a score of 19.2.
Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) performed worst among the cabinet members. The comprehensibility of speeches is made particularly difficult by “monster and tapeworm sentences,” as linguists noted. Politicians like to package unpleasant statements in box sentences, said Frank Brettschneider.