Niveaulimbo

We've all tried the limbo dance - bending backwards to walk under a horizontal pole that is lowered with each round - and most of us have likely landed on our rear ends. This week, the slang term "Niveaulimbo" - literally, "limbo of standards" - was named Germany's Youth Word of the Year by the Langenscheidt publishing house. Young people in Germany use the newly invented word to complain about the ever worsening quality of a TV programs, the atmosphere at a party that thins out before midnight, or a conversation that quickly hits the gutter when alcohol is involved and bad jokes spiral into even worse jokes.