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From: long@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: Kennedy's use of German language
Message-ID: <528@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 28-Jul-85 21:12:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliveb.528
Posted: Sun Jul 28 21:12:48 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 29-Jul-85 10:55:43 EDT
References: <130@prime.UUCP>
Reply-To: long@oliveb.UUCP (Dave Long)
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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".

    This is because occupations, to what area one belongs to, etc. are like
adjectives in German.  So, like one would say "I am sick", one says "I am
programmer", "I am Californian", etc.  In this case "a Berliner" is the name
of a type of jelly donut, just like things such as "a Hamburger" (not the same
thing as in the US).
						Dave "Ich bin Teerferse" Long
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