teutophone

1. not comparableAlternative letter-case form of Teutophone.

   [previous message: “There are other things than Google - www.wein-plus.de, for instance, where I found the following: Im Burgund wuchs die Rebe[…]”] Thanks - sometimes I forget being teutophone .

   2009 September 24, Nils Gustaf Lindgren, “Honey aromas”, in alt.food.wine (Usenet)

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   My German was never up to much, but isn't it "es sind" for plurals? "Es gibt" is more like "il y a". It's a little off-topic, but I would be interested if one of out^([sic]) teutophone* regulars could briefly explain the difference between the two German expressions, if there is one. >> *Did the Greeks have a word for it? "Skythai", maybe; Wp says the word was used, after the classical period, for the Goths. Scythophones.

   2011 September 23, CDB, “which is correct, anyone?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet)

   If Austen’s interests lie in social customs embodied in the novel of manners, Fontane later initiates a teutophone version of the genre, with the work of Thackeray at mid-century being, this article proposes, a crucial go-between.

   2020, Ken Ireland, “Jane & Theo: Affinities Stylistic and Temperamental in Jane Austen and Theodor Fontane”, in Norbert Bachleitner, editor, Literary Translation, Reception, and Transfer (The Many Languages of Comparative Literature; Achim Hölter, editor, Collected Papers of the 21st Congress of the ICLA, volume 2), De Gruyter, →ISBN, section 3 (Influence and Comparisons Between Authors), page 177

plural teutophones

1. Alternative letter-case form of Teutophone.

   Frühe Klaviersonaten…how fortunate teutophones are with the word Klavier, so much more in general use with them than ‘keyboard’ with us.

   1980, The Haydn Yearbook, University College Cardiff Press, page 207

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   The reunification of Germany, in 1990, has increased the number of German native speakers in the EU by the 17 million teutophones of the former German Democratic Republic, considerably raising the communication value of repertoires that contain German.

   2001, Abram de Swaan, “[The European Union: the more languages, the more English] Civil Europe (2): Q-values in the European Union”, in Words of the World: The Global Language System, Polity, →ISBN, page 153

   Researchers asked German speakers and Spanish speakers to describe objects with opposite gender assignments in German and Spanish and found that their descriptions conformed to gender stereotypes, even when the testing took place in English. For example, teutophones tended to describe bridges (feminine in German, die Brücke) as beautiful, elegant, fragile, peaceful, pretty, and slender, whereas hispanophones tended to describe bridges (masculine in Spanish, el puente) as big, dangerous, long, strong, sturdy, and towering.

   2018 August 8, Neel Burton, “How the Language You Speak Influences the Way You Think”, in Psychology Today, New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023

alternative Teutonophone · alternative teutonophone · alternative teutophone

1. not comparableGerman-speaking.

   In the case of Germany, the idea of the Teutophone Volk existed prior to the unified German nation-state (which did not, and will not in the foreseeable future, encompass all of the German-speaking peoples).

   1997, Language Contact and Language Conflict: Proceedings of the International Ivar Aasen Conference, 14-15 November 1996, University of Oslo, Volda College, →ISBN

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   Although numerous futuristic details are evoked—blepophones, nuclear hang-lines, portable artificial lungs for cancer victims, the transformation of the map of Europe into “Teutophone” and “Francophone” states—Burgess is at pains to keep the world recognizable.

   1990, Margaret Scanlan, “Anthony Burgess’s The End of the World News”, in Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 185

   > So if you want to compare hispanics to barbarians, you should really compare > them to the Romans. The Romans were the real barbarians of their time, > whereas the Germanic tribes were more civilized. Your "Teutophone" inclination notwithstanding, I'm afraid nobody would agree with you, save Christians and Jewish nationalists. =) The fact is that Germans (and other barbarians, might I add) immigrated to Rome, not the other way around. Rome's fall in the West is rightly considered the beginning of The Dark Ages.

   2002 July 22, ehre, “That negro teenage criminal got what he deserved”, in soc.culture.asian.american (Usenet)

   Husserl’s stated reasons for accepting it were its familiarity, particularly in Teutophone and foreign-language works of psychology, and its brevity: Husserl defined ‘act’ as a shorthand for the somewhat longer (but hardly cumbersome) phrase ‘intentional experience’. […] Exploring the import of Erlebnis for Teutophone philosophy prior to or after Husserl, the phenomenological tradition particularly, or even Husserl’s own later work, would involve more significant a digression from the present task than I can afford.

   2007, Ryan Hickerson, The History of Intentionality, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, pages 76 and 145

   The other main charm-type represented in the Tartu archive is Three roses, a type that has its heartland in Teutophone Central Europe – German examples date from the 1500s onwards, and the type later appeared in the popular German book of charms, Romanusbüchlein.

   2009, Jonathan Roper, editor, Charms, Charmers and Charming: International Research on Verbal Magic (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 179

   A similar notion of a Teutophone sphere is historically central to German cultural and educational policy, but influence is seen from the German perspective more as using its power to create an interest and awareness of its political and cultural goals as a basis for dialogue.

   2013, James Pamment, “West European Public Diplomacy”, in Mai’a K. Davis Cross, Jan Melissen, editors, European Public Diplomacy: Soft Power at Work, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 17

   Synonyms: Germanophone

plural Teutophones · alternative Teutonophone · alternative teutonophone · alternative teutophone

1. A speaker of the German language.

   A good translation is a help, especially for non-Teutophones.

   2004, Thomas Mautner, “Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Translated and edited by P. Guyer and A. W. Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp xi+785.”, in Kevin L. Cope, Robert C. Leitz, III, editors, The Eighteenth-Century Current Bibliography, n.s. volume 26—for 2000, New York, N.Y.: AMS Press, Inc., →ISBN, Special Section: Late Entries and Reviews, page 585

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   For non-Teutophones (?), the "GmbH" translations are as follows: / (mine) "Store with limited action" (actually makes some sense!) / Official: "Company with limited liability" / Unofficial: "Comrades with limited brain mass"

   1997 October 3, Karl W. Schneider, “Why VW will fail at upmarket strategy”, in rec.autos.makers.vw.watercooled (Usenet)

   Thanks for the short review, Gert. I think we (Teutophones) don't have to hear more to make a decision if we should buy this book.

   1998 May 26, Andreas Carl, “Critique of "Al Bundy - Das große Buch für Fans"”, in alt.tv.mwc (Usenet)

   The site with the largest number of pictures, good documentation and informative hyperlinking is www.archinform.de, a German Web site where you can click on an English-language button to make it all comprehensible to non-Teutophones.

   2000 June, Nicholas von Hoffman, “AD Electronica: Architectural Tours on the Internet: Making Virtual Visits Around the World”, in Architectural Digest, volume 57, number 6, page 140, column 2

   On the other hand, there are the Teutophones from the land of Bayern, where sheep seldom wear spectacles, the trees are made out of wood and the natives scare American tourists out of their wits.

   2001 February, “Archived copy”, in Imprint, volume 24, number 2, Waterloo, Ont.: University of Waterloo, archived from the original on 17 Nov 2023

   A light shining in the century’s darkness was the Passíussálmar (1659, Passion Hymns) of the pastor Hallgrímur Pétursson; Teutophones can discover more about them in Wilhelm Friese’s Nordische Barockdichtung (1968, pp. 260-264).

   2004, GNR, volume 35/36, page 70

   Synonyms: Germanophone