On Sunday 12 August 2012 15:08:19 Mag. Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > >> This is a variation of the old and tired bit of husksterism, which > > > > > > My standard translation sources do not even list that word or similar > > > ones. > > > > I'm not sure what Bryan means either. I think he may have conflated a > > couple of different words: > > huskerism (EN) = "Hausierei" (DE) > > Describes the activity of an unwated door-to-door salesman. > > Nik > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > trinity-users-unsubscribe@... For additional > commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@... Read list > messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: > http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting I think that he probably maent "hucksterism", which certainly exists. I confess to not having come across the form "huskerism". http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/huckster Lisi