teutophone

German-speaking.

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.

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).

A speaker of the German language.

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.

Alternative 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 .

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.