Ah yes, in English it apparently means ‘-ly’, in German it means ‘Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland’… I guess some languages are just more expressive than others.

I love it simply because it’s the near enough closest incarnation we have these day of this quote:

We are going to use this organisation to change the way the rest of the country thinks. We want them to see stuff they don’t like. We don’t really care if they complain.

• Hugh Greene, first director general of the NWDR (later NDR and WDR), and later the BBC

Would be nice to see more people take this attitude in this day and age.