Meaning of Teutophone | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A speaker of the German language.
2. Alternative letter-case form of Teutophone.
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Examples

“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"”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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).”

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

“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⟳.”

“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.”

“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”.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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