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verslibre
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^I'll eat 'em!
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Logan
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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words I am a German pastry" (not quite JFK). It would be worse to say it to someone who is pudgy (I've heard overweight people called doughnuts). Since John F. Kennedy was born in Massachusetts, it might have been better to say, "Ich bin ein Boston Cream" for that famous speech. I think we, or maybe it was with Jean, had this discussion before, but whether that was a gaffe or not has been debated. As you have a keen interest in history as well as an interest in linguistics, here are some articles on it. https://www.thelocal.de/20130626/50515 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-does-everybody-think-jfk-said-im-jelly-donut-180963779/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/08/the-real-meaning-of-ich-bin-ein-berliner/309500/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-hole-truth/
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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moshkito
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American English is not that well defined and neither do they teach grammar in school. Here all lingo and this and that goes ... and it is one thing that really makes communication difficult, because no one really knows what anyone is saying. I have issues, for example, saying things somewhat in my Portuguese original language, which has 24 verb tenses, and I use the imperatives, it throws people off really bad. I could not vote on this stuff ... haven't heard most of it, though I have some of the stuff. |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Lewian
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Sensitivities are tiring at times... mention Mein Kampf night and day in my company and have fun declaring yourself a Berliner!
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BaldJean
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just imagine how funny it would have been had he said "Ich bin ein Amerikaner, und ich bin ein Berliner"
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta |
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Logan
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Now that would have been truly deliciously laughable. |
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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gr8dane
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I will just have a chow mein.Por favor.
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Shake & bake.
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Logan
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^ Hands off, that chow is mein.
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Just a fanboy passin' through.
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gr8dane
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No problem.It's got too many umlauts on it anyway. :) In poll ,I take other. Klaus Mein(e) and Scorpions.
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Shake & bake.
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hellogoodbye
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Not German, but born in Germany, I'd like to add Bernard Szajner's Visions of Dune inspired by Herbert, not Von Karajan ! I listen to that album a lot these days
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BaldFriede
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Zarah Leander - Mein Leben für die Liebe, jawohl! |
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BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
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TheH
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In defense of JFK: He hold his speech in Berlin the only town in Germany where the pastry Berliner
is called Pfannkuchen instead. Of course everyewhere else in Germany a Pfannkuchen is a Pancake but in Berlin it's called a Eierkuchen. So JFK did everything right (I'm a Pfannkuchen :-) )
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