Kiezdeutsch is the name given to a youth dialect of German that is highly fluid, omits prepositions, and incorporates elements of Arabic and Turkish. It is looked down upon for its lack of grammatical correctness, but its defenders say it should be looked upon as the development of a new, simplified dialect of the German language. Simplification of such a complex language, as most students of German would agree, is certainly not to its detriment. However, many others would argue that the German language must be preserved as much as possible to uphold tradition. Both sides can agree however, that language evolves at a very fast pace. The English language itself has made a drastic transformation in the past 500 years, to say nothing of how different German will be 500 years in the future!
-Yasmin
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