# The original Mary Poppins has had its {UK} rating raised over discriminatory language **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** movies\ **Created:** [February 27, 2024, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-mary-poppins-has-had-its-uk-rating-raised-over-discriminatory-language/998160 "2024-02-27T12:09:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-mary-poppins-has-had-its-uk-rating-raised-over-discriminatory-language/998160/10 "2024-02-27T14:55:39Z")
There’s also the “longest German word” routine: > [@Has anyone heard this tongue-in-cheek example of Germans stringing words together?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-heard-this-tongue-in-cheek-example-of-germans-stringing-words-together/697180): > > In high school the German teacher presented an amusing example of how Germans make new words by stringing words together. The gist of it was that there was a black-and-white checkered cannibal girl whose name was [something], and she owned cages for holding kangaroos she got from the Hottentots. (Or maybe she was a Hottentot.) The word was built up in steps, each step becoming longer than the last, and the story was told in German. The composite word was partially ‘Hottentottenbeutelratenkäf… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-original-mary-poppins-has-had-its-uk-rating-raised-over-discriminatory-language/998160)._