Author: Torstein Hall
Date: 14:19:11 08/14/01
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On August 14, 2001 at 16:22:07, Peter Berger wrote: >On August 14, 2001 at 16:10:57, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>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"! > >Rest assured no Berlin citizen would have understood it like this. > >People who live in Berlin are called "Berliner" in German . So > >"Ich bin ein Berliner" will be understood correctly by any German citizen. > >In some parts of Germany a jelly doughnut ( although that's actually something >completely different anyway but I get the idea ) is called "Berliner", too . > >But not in Berlin ! :-) - if you try to order a Berliner here you'll only get >puzzled looks but not something even closely related to a jelly doughnut :-) > >It seems John F. Kennedy knew a lot about German internals ;-) > >Cheers. > >pete What if Bush takes a trip to Hamburg and says "Ich bin ein Hamburger!" Torstein (Sorry but I Could not resist the urge to write this.)
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