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From: asente@Cascade.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Kennedy's use of German language
Message-ID: <410@Cascade.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 27-Jul-85 19:32:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: Cascade.410
Posted: Sat Jul 27 19:32:21 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 28-Jul-85 05:30:58 EDT
References: <130@prime.UUCP>
Reply-To: asente@Cascade.UUCP (Paul Asente)
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Summary: 

In article <130@prime.UUCP> pj@prime.UUCP (Peter J. Weyman) writes:
>This falls in the believe it or not category.  In this month's Reader's
>Digest, there is a paragraph describing John Kennedy's "Ich bin ein
>Berliner" statement.  Apparently, he *should* have said "Ich bin
>Berliner".  In fact, the article claims that "Ich bin ein Berliner"
>translates to "I am a jelly doughnut".
>
>Someone out there must understand enough German to help me understand
>why this is so...I frankly can't see it.

If you know enough English to understand the difference between "I am
Danish" and "I am a danish" you should be able to understand why this
is so in German.

	-paul asente

Actually, it wasn't a mistake.  He really *was* a jelly doughnut.