A real charlie foxtrot, Ja? Oui!!!

Dear Congressman,

Occasionally one will here about Académie française, or the French Academy, which since 1635 has defended the French language from being littered with words and phrases from other less worthy tongues. It does this by publishing a dictionary outlining acceptable words to use while smoking Gauloises and sipping a demitasse of expresso.

This body consists of 40 members who rule over the French language in an exclusive club that you join for life, unless you are Phillipe Petain and create a government (Vichy) during world war II that collaborates with Nazi Germany, and then you are politely asked to resign. By controlling this dictionary, the body 'guides' the use of the French language.

Germany has a standard dictionary as well, Duden, but no panel of aristocracy convening to decide which words from barbarian languages are to be incorporated into it.

And they might need to start one, as Germany is well known for their discipline and attention to detail, I think you would agree that this one got away. 

It appears that Chancellor Angela Merkel had the honor of introducing a new word into the Teutonic vocabulary, as her use of this term made it acceptable lingo, and foreshadowed it's entry into the Duden dictionary.  In fact, German language experts voted it "Anglicism of the year" in 2012.

It appears during the Eurozone economic crisis, the German people found a word to best describe the anxiety and fear that came along with failing banks and pissed off Greeks.

So welcome to the German language, "Shitstorm".

Well played Deutschland, well played...