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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/germany-influence-of-english-idiots-apostrophe

I mean, the prescriptivist assumptions of the article are already bad enough. No one "decides" what is "correct German".

But… it also links to
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/29/how-viral-tongue-twister-lightened-up-german-language
and I know this is a dumb thing to get angry about but… Does no one at the Guardian do even a *little* bit of research? Rhabarbar Barbara is *not* by Bodo Wartke. It's almost 20 years old:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcMT395UvWI
Wartke just took someone else's work and made a song out of it.