"Mountweazel" & "Nihilartikel" [Was: Red herring definitions]

[FRITZ JUENGLING]

In my German classes I let students pcik a German name.  One girl wanted some weird word that she simply made up.  It wasn't German for sure.  I said no and related the Mountweazel story to the class.  She now goes by Ulrike Mountweazel.
fritz


>
>At 9/27/2005 02:43 PM, I wrote:
> >Will "Mountweazel" now become the category name for such fake
> >entries?
>
>Apparently not, there is already a borrowed word,
>"Nihilartikel".  Many more Google citations than "Mountweazel".
>
>Joel