Oh, that is great to hear! Thank you! I only learned the term a few years ago, while working at SUSE, and it fits a need I wasn't aware I had. "The German-spe

Oh, that is great to hear! Thank you! I only learned the term a few years ago, while working at SUSE, and it fits a need I wasn't aware I had. "The German-speaking world" is awfully long and yet remains imprecise: * Are we talking about countries where there are some German speaking people? No -- that's probably every country. * Are we referring to countries where there's a resident German-speaking minority? No. The USA has the Amish who speak "Pennsylvania Dutch" (among other minorities there among whom old folks speak Germanic languages) and that isn't Dutch at all but a Low Germanic dialect -- or a family of them. Then there are the Volga Germans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_Germans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_Germans -- hundreds of thousands of German speakers around the former USSR. * Are we talking about countries where German is the majority language then, like Anglosphere in English? The Teutonosphere? * Oh, but hang on, then shouldn't the term be in German? * Ah, but hang on, I do know a little German, and German speakers love coining new words by ramming existing words together, so it's probably been invented a dozen times. The Deutchsprachigewelt or something. * Uhoh... maybe there is such a word but non-German speakers don't know it because they don't understand it, or they can't say it? * And anyway, whose German then? Hochdeutsch or Schweitscherduutsch or Bayerisch or Swabish? So I looked, and there is, and it's short and easy, and it cuts through the difficulty of two of the countries having different forms of German and the third having a really weird form of German but anyway it's not the standard language it's just one of four... It's in German and English and Latin! Cool!