teutophone

See also: Teutophone

English

Adjective

teutophone (not comparable)

Alternative letter-case form of Teutophone.
- 2009 September 24, Nils Gustaf Lindgren, “Honey aromas”, in alt.food.wine (Usenet):
  [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 <giggle>.
- 2011 September 23, CDB, “which is correct, anyone?”, in alt.usage.english (Usenet):
  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.
- 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:
  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.

Noun

teutophone (plural teutophones)

Alternative letter-case form of Teutophone.
- 1980, The Haydn Yearbook, University College Cardiff Press, page 207:
  Frühe Klaviersonaten…how fortunate teutophones are with the word Klavier, so much more in general use with them than ‘keyboard’ with us.
- 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:
  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.
- 2018 August 8, Neel Burton, “How the Language You Speak Influences the Way You Think”, in Psychology Today‎^[1], New York, N.Y., archived from the original on 17 November 2023:
  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.