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Teutophone en · ADJ

Etymology

From Teuto- + -phone.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) German-speaking.
    • 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:
    • As a Teutophone Jew living in early 20ᵗʰ century Prague at a time when the politics of language and nation rose to the level of ordinary frenzy, Kafka’s literary work and correspondence brim with erotically charged conflict, particularly vis-à-vis the family, the justice system and the bureaucratic state. 2015, David Kroening Seitz, “[“Why Are You Doing This?” Desiring Queer Global Citizenship] Mapping Desire”, in “A House of Prayer for All People”: Promises of Citizenship in Queer Church, thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Toronto, Ont.: Graduate Department of Geography and Planning, w:University of Toronto, page 147:
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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):
    • It is also interesting to note that the influence of English-speaking media is specifically identified as a threat, and the antidote is considered to be a Teutophone mediascape made possible through German language education – a transposition of economic strength into ideoscapes. 2013, James Pamment, “Time, Space & German Soft Power: Toward a Spatio-Temporal Turn in Diplomatic Studies?”, in Perspectives: Review of Central European Affairs, volume 21, number 2, Prague, →ISSN, page 16:
    • 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:

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Synonyms

Germanophone

Teutophone en · NOUN

Etymology

From Teuto- + -phone.

Meanings

  1. A speaker of the German language.
    • 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:
    • 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. 2004 April 9, Randy McDonald, “A valuable lesson.”, in soc.culture.baltics (Usenet):
    • 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”. 2014 July 9, Jonathan Prynn, “Gone with the wind”, in Evening Standard, page 51, column 3:
    • 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. 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:
    • 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):
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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:
    • 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):
    • 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. 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:

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Synonyms

Germanophone