Exciting foreign words / Tantenverführer
am 15.12.2007 von Transblawg
The British media are spreading lies about Germany yet again.
From todays Guardian:
And a number of us will need to beware of what Germans call the Tantenverführer (aunt seducer) at this years office Christmas party, a young man of suspiciously good manners you suspect of devious motives...
Admittedly the article is by someone who wrote a whole book about odd words in foreign languages (Adam Jacot de Boinod is the author of Toujours Tingo published by Penguin, another young man who may have devious motives). One wonders who gave him this one. Perhaps Mark McCrum?
Like Spinatwachtel (another rare word) in the LEO forum, I found Google suggested this was not known to German speakers:
googelt man nach Tantenverführer - Seiten auf Deutsch, erhält man bezeichnenderweise die Nachricht, daß es da nichts gäbe, ob man in einer anderen Sprache gucken möchte. Man klickt ja, und hey presto! …
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