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The one I still adore Douglas Adams created in his work "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" among other things a "Somebody Else's Problem field", better known here as the PAL field, and gave many of its readers something to think about.
Klaus Kusanowsky wrote an on December 5, 2011 PAL Field Analysis of Internet Anarchy.
For myself, I further developed the PAL field into a PAL filter, which I now also use for all digital inboxes, right after the SPAM filter. Similarly, I continue to use the tried-and-tested filing system P; where P stands for recycle bin.
As an example of this, I would like to cite the tiresome and, at least in my opinion, completely superfluous problem of a “gender-appropriate” language, which, apart from a few esotericists who probably have to use it to justify their own existence, is of no real interest to anyone else, and quite the opposite , only makes any work or even reasonable communication more difficult.
It should be clear even to linguists that languages are actually becoming ever simpler, and that even attempts to preserve the dative or genitive are reaching the limits of what is humanly possible.
So, as a layman, I simply attribute this new "speech homeopathy" to the well-known Newspeak and reject it wholeheartedly.
That's why: if I don't answer your letters, posts or e-mails in a timely manner, please simply tell me to check my PAL filter.
Joseph Beuys, could also be heard in an exhibition in Heilbronn in 2011
"He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
