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Just removed [livejournal.com profile] insidecbc because CBC (or their agents) let the domain name lapse, and now it's being used by some Germanophone(?) weblogger for reasons I don't know the language well enough to understand.

(Seriously: if English-speakers are "anglophones", and French-speakers are "francophones", what might we call German-speakers?)

Date: 2014-07-16 06:57 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] harvey-rrit.livejournal.com
Deutscherspieleren?

(The other two languages are primarily of Roman origin*, and get words of such derivation. Fair's fair.)




(*Linguist Maurice Dunbar was much given to pointing out that, based on percentage of word roots, this language, that you and I are using, is, technically, very bad French.)

Date: 2014-07-16 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
I'm still looking for something ending in "-phone" for some manic-obsessive reason...

Date: 2014-07-16 07:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] harvey-rrit.livejournal.com
The nearest I can think of is "Sousaphone", the American marching-band version of a tuba. Which is not very near at all.

Allemanophone?

Date: 2014-07-16 07:29 pm (UTC)

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