>>decided there's one thing I don't want to be - a Fach-Idiot (it's a German
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>That's a great expression :0 Now if only you tell me how to pronounce it!

With the very few Germans round here to help (hope they're not listening), I'll have to try myself: "faakh-edyawt". Or you can adopt it as "fuh-idiot" (aitch audible). "Fach" should mean a drawer, a postbox, and also means "field-of-work" ("sorry, you are a kidney case - lungs are my Fach").