Teutophone
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: Teutophones
form: Teutonophone
form: teutonophone
form: teutophone
Etymology: From Teuto- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: 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"
ref: 1997 October 3, Karl W. Schneider, “Why VW will fail at upmarket strategy”, in rec.autos.makers.vw.watercooled (Usenet):
text: 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.
ref: 1998 May 26, Andreas Carl, “Critique of "Al Bundy - Das große Buch für Fans"”, in alt.tv.mwc (Usenet):
text: 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.
ref: 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:
text: 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.
ref: 2001 February, Imprint, volume 24, number 2, Waterloo, Ont.: University of Waterloo:
text: 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).
ref: 2004, GNR, volume 35/36, page 70:
text: A good translation is a help, especially for non-Teutophones.
ref: 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:
text: Frisians and Sorbs could have constituted nation-states, but their language territories have been surrounded but speakers of Dutch and German respectively, and Sorbs had the further disadvantages of being outnumbered ten-to-one in their homeland by Teutophones and of having to go through Nazi rule.
ref: 2004 April 9, Randy McDonald, “A valuable lesson.”, in soc.culture.baltics (Usenet):
text: Second, he got into hot water during a dismal course on the German Novelle by wondering if Theodor Storm, from Husum, could not have chosen to write in Danish—the teacher was a Teutophone from Schleswig-Holstein.
ref: 2013 summer, George C. Schoolfield, “[Reviews] ■ Christian Gellinek. 2012. Adam Oehlenschläger: In Dänemark berühmt, in Deutschland vergessen. Frankfurt a.M. et al: Peter Lang. Pp. 116. ■ Christian Gellinek. 2012. Dänemarks und Deutschlands Kultursolidarität über Grenzen. Frankfurt a.M. et al.: Peter Lang. Pp. 66.”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 85, number 2, Champaign, Ill., →ISSN, page 243:
text: Passengers are encouraged to share tables at dinner to break down national barriers, although, perhaps inevitably, on our cruise we quickly settled into four regional blocs: Anglophones, Francophones, Teutophones and “the rest of the world”.
ref: 2014 July 9, Jonathan Prynn, “Gone with the wind”, in Evening Standard, page 51, column 3:
text: Apart from a way to make sense of the lyrics — for non-Teutophones, the English disc is a wonderful way to introduce a friend to the music of Varg and cutting through the language barrier.
ref: 2016 January 24, Karan Pradhan, “German metal band Varg takes a political plunge in its latest album, and it pays off”, in Firstpost, Mumbai, archived from the original on 27 Jan 2016:
synonyms: Germanophone
glosses: A speaker of the German language.