And the word "tantenverführer" seems not to be known to any actual German speakers but instead to spring from the pages of one of those dire "Tingo" books
I hope there's a hilarious and explosive email bollocking from a sub to NC about to be discovered.
That's shocking. Only a person who knows they are immune from Private Eye criticism would cut and paste sentences from previous articles. Somebody should tell the Observer editor.
Or did our boy just skip the book and head straight for the review:
"This time we have the German word Tantenverführer (literally aunt-seducer) to describe a young man whose excessively good intentions suggest suspicious motives."
Talking of Private Eye, I assume people have noticed their own spectacular error in Dumb Britain? (I've not sent it in, on the grounds that somebody's bound to have done so already before I even got my copy.)
I also spotted more than one other error on the same double-page....
ratbiter/nick cohen also gets 'bitten' in the letters page, after the hilariously screechy 'what's the world coming to when you can't call a holocaust denier a neo-nazi, with no evidence for the latter' riposte he wrote in the last letters page.
Found this blog when Googling "Nick Cohen Ratbiter". Looks like I was right or at least not alone. Bloody Wheen and his Euston mates. Hislop needs to get a grip on them.
The Private Eye letters strand continues, with latest letter from meself. I've posted it all here: here, along with an earlier response to the original Tehran TV article which Ratbiter responded to but 'ed' (or assistant ed) didn't print.
BTW, if anyone hasn;t seen it, NC's legal argumentation is in full flow at the start of this: We Are Change UK - Nick Cohen.
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Conservative Home has described Nick's article as "today's must read", which says it all, really.
And the word "tantenverführer" seems not to be known to any actual German speakers but instead to spring from the pages of one of those dire "Tingo" books
I hope there's a hilarious and explosive email bollocking from a sub to NC about to be discovered.
He cut and pasted that whole sentence from an earlier article:
"German has the useful word Tantenverführer: “a young man of excessively good manners you suspect of devious motives (literally, an aunt seducer).”"
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/why_brits_dont_fall_for_obama/
Maybe the article was based on Conservative Party talking points.
Moussaka Man
That's shocking. Only a person who knows they are immune from Private Eye criticism would cut and paste sentences from previous articles. Somebody should tell the Observer editor.
I'm sure I've seen tantenverfuhrer somewhere else, in near-identical wording, used about somebody else. Possibly a British pol.
Further, I can say I've never seen it used by a German or in a German text, ever.
Happily, the seventh result on google for tantenverfuhrer is a German weblog post pointing out that Nick has unthinkingly repeated a fabrication.
Is there any 'serious' columnist - any columnist, that matter - who makes so many humiliating mistakes as our Nick?
Or did our boy just skip the book and head straight for the review:
"This time we have the German word Tantenverführer (literally aunt-seducer) to describe a young man whose excessively good intentions suggest suspicious motives."
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article2759260.ece
Talking of Private Eye, I assume people have noticed their own spectacular error in Dumb Britain? (I've not sent it in, on the grounds that somebody's bound to have done so already before I even got my copy.)
I also spotted more than one other error on the same double-page....
ratbiter/nick cohen also gets 'bitten' in the letters page, after the hilariously screechy 'what's the world coming to when you can't call a holocaust denier a neo-nazi, with no evidence for the latter' riposte he wrote in the last letters page.
Found this blog when Googling "Nick Cohen Ratbiter". Looks like I was right or at least not alone. Bloody Wheen and his Euston mates. Hislop needs to get a grip on them.
The Private Eye letters strand continues, with latest letter from meself. I've posted it all here: here, along with an earlier response to the original Tehran TV article which Ratbiter responded to but 'ed' (or assistant ed) didn't print.
BTW, if anyone hasn;t seen it, NC's legal argumentation is in full flow at the start of this: We Are Change UK - Nick Cohen.
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