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German speakers will happily join a conference call minutes or even hours before it is due to start purely to experience the cleansing effect (''[[früheankunftfreude]]'' of being ''der [[warteschleifenmusikopfer]]'' — the first to plunge into an icy bath — or indeed to avoid the stigma (''[[späteankunftschande]]'') of being the last invitee to join — a taboo that applies even where all attendees have dialed in before the appointed time (an eventuality which, outside German speaking world, is all but logically impossible). | German speakers will happily join a conference call minutes or even hours before it is due to start purely to experience the cleansing effect (''[[früheankunftfreude]]'' of being ''der [[warteschleifenmusikopfer]]'' — the first to plunge into an icy bath — or indeed to avoid the stigma (''[[späteankunftschande]]'') of being the last invitee to join — a taboo that applies even where all attendees have dialed in before the appointed time (an eventuality which, outside German speaking world, is all but logically impossible). | ||
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The first recorded literary reference to the conference call was as a minor plot development in {{buchstein}}’s uncelebrated operatta, {{dsh}}, when hapless [[general counsel]] Triago, sensing the untimely end to a meeting he has convened, casts about for further business: | |||
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