The Yodeling Diploma

In a sketch by Loriot, first broadcast on 7 December 1978, Frau Hoppenstedt attends a yodeling school. She wants her yodeling diploma so that she has was Eigenes, something of her own. The word Jodeldiplom entered the language, and the dictionary DWDS lists it. It is used for a superfluous or worthless qualification. Die Zeit wrote in 2006: “Das ist jetzt, ohne Drachen im Land, kaum mehr wert als ein Jodeldiplom.” Now, with no dragons in the land, that is hardly worth more than a yodeling diploma.

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