After we clarified here last weekend whether it was “on” or “at” Christmas et al. (in case you missed this episode: in Berlin please “zu” or without a preposition, while “an” can be punished with banishment to the Sauerland in case of repetition) … – now that this has been resolved, let’s turn to the no less explosive Ask if you can actually say “Saturday”.
While some do not understand the problem at all, others write e-mails to the editors with evidence of laundry baskets, in which they demand that Saturday be banned because it has to be called “Saturday” in Berlin. There it pecked.
Kiekste in the Duden, found similar answers to the question as to the previous Christmas story: Saturday is West and South German as well as Austrian and Swiss. And vulgar Greek from the root of the word, at least the first part, i.e. the one with Sams.
We don’t want vulgar weekday names here because we already have enough vulgar words in Berlin, right, Alta ?!
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“Saturday” is really not Austrian at all, as an otherwise well-integrated colleague with a relevant migration background confirms: She – it must have been around January this year – considered “Saturday” a synonym for “Sunday evening”; something like this: Sunday morning, Sunday noon, Saturday, Sunday night.
So whoever insists on “Saturday” may be an esthete, but confuses the Ösis, fails to recognize the cramped space conditions in newspaper columns and owes an explanation for how to shorten the days of the week without confusion. Please propose solutions by next Sunday.
