Interview: 'Despite fear, we should focus on the positives'Ich Bin Ein Berliner

Deutsche Welle ^ | 22 December 2016 | Gabriel Borrud, Frank FurediSteely Tom

[Steely Tom]

Remember all the snarky comments about how JFK made a fool of himself when he told millions of Germans Ich bin ein Berliner back in 1963?

[Steely Tom]

By the way, Berlin Halt Zusammen means "Berlin Holds Together."

[dfwgator]

Soon they'll be singing a different tune.

[Grimmy]

Heh.

I first read that as “Berlin Halt Zimmerman” and I was like.. huh? what’d he do this time?”

[LouieFisk]

Berliners knew what JFK was saying. It’s an urban legend that they thought he was talking about a jelly doughnut or whatever pastry.

[353FMG]

In free translation: “Berlin is united”.

[Mollypitcher1]

Wonder if it’ll all come down to another Berlin Airlift!

[Steely Tom]

“Berlin Stays German.”

[gr8eman]

Berliners do not call jelly donuts “Berliners”. They call them krapfen!

[Jeff Chandler]

Ich Bin Ein Berliner

President Carter tried to copy Kennedy but he said it from Hamburg.

[LouieFisk]

Yup. Another term: “pfannkuchen”.

[LouieFisk]

“President Carter tried to copy Kennedy but he said it from Hamburg.”
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Reagan demanded “tear down this wall!” - and it happened.

[Jeff Chandler]

I understand there was a pastry called a “Berliner”, and although the proper way to say what he said would be without “ein”, Germans knew what he meant.

[Steely Tom]

Reagan demanded “tear down this wall!” - and it happened.

One of the proudest moments of the 20th Century.

[Jeff Chandler]

Went right over your head.

[VanDeKoik]

Wonder if it’ll all come down to another Berlin Airlift!



Let's just say next time it's going to likely be more of an extraction operation.

[dfwgator]

President Carter tried to copy Kennedy but he said it from Hamburg.

I thought it was Frankfurt.

[RegulatorCountry]

A Berliner is a type of jelly doughnut. Kennedy’s use of the indefinite article “ein” changed the meaning from the intended “I am a resident of Berlin” to “I am a Berliner,” which is in fact a type of jelly doughnut, all the recent attempts to discredit this and rehabilitate the speech notwithstanding.

[discostu]

Big moments are immune to bad grammar. Just as Neil Armstrong.

[Spruce]

Berliners

[Jeff Chandler]

"Ich bin ein Hamburger."