Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 13:10:57 08/14/01
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On August 14, 2001 at 15:51:03, David Dahlem wrote: >On August 14, 2001 at 15:45:18, David Dahlem wrote: > >>On August 14, 2001 at 15:00:46, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>On August 14, 2001 at 02:20:06, pavel wrote: >>> >>>> I am very much interested on this topic, but you guys are using a foriegn >>>>language which I cant undertand. I think its a good idea to write in both >>>>language (like dieter did), or preferably write in english so that others who >>>>donts speak this language understand. >>> >>>German is a major language for computer chess. >>> >>>OT: >>> >>>I hope that, if I learn German, I hope do a better job than President Kennedy >>>did when he stated for history, "I am a jelly doughnut!". (I understand that's >>>what he actually said in German, translated into English, when he intended to >>>say, "I am a Berliner!".) >> >>According to the Systran translator at http://translator.go.com/ "jelly >>doughnut" translated from english to german is "Geleekrapfen". I don't think >>this is what President Kennedy said. >> >>Dave > >What President Kennedy really said was "ich bin ein berliner". > Exactly. And what I've heard, several times from several unrelated sources, is that he should have left out the "ein", because with that extra word in there it means, "I am a jelly doughnut"!
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