German: verblüfft aber doch zunächst und läßt übles Artistentum witternEnglish translation: vaudeville 
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Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature | | German term or phrase: verblüfft aber doch zunächst und läßt übles Artistentum wittern | | Describes the effect someone's music on the listener. it's the last three words I have trouble with. |
| | Clarification request(s) and responseMaya Jurt: 1:04pm Sep 21, 2001: A word must be missing. zunächst.. what?? -
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| | at first it is | Explanation:
puzzling and has an air of the worst kind of vaudeville. The last word is how I interpret Artistentum - show business, circus, etc. |
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Kim Metzger
Mexico
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| at first it is
Explanation:
puzzling and has an air of the worst kind of vaudeville. The last word is how I interpret Artistentum - show business, circus, etc.
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| Kim Metzger
Mexico
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| Tom Funke
United States
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| sense
Explanation:
it seems to be amazing, but then you sense (suspect), that they might be very bad artists.
wittern=sense
transferred from animals' behaviour, when they sense a danger, or just smell a scent
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