To: weston
"Ich bin ein Wisconsiner!" If you remember the JFK quote, "Ich bin ein Berliner" translates into "I am a Jelly Doughnut". The word ein makes the quote become "I am the food for which the city is famous". Kennedy should have said: "Ich bin Berliner"
I guess this makes you a cheese stuffed bratwurst.
56 posted on
06/05/2012 7:28:03 AM PDT by
norwaypinesavage
(Galileo: In science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of one individual)
To: norwaypinesavage
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If you remember the JFK quote, "Ich bin ein Berliner" translates into "I am a Jelly Doughnut" Thanks a lot, I blew my coffee all over the laptop. Good thing I have a spare.
69 posted on
06/05/2012 7:36:30 AM PDT by
scram2
To: norwaypinesavage
If you remember the JFK quote, "Ich bin ein Berliner" translates into "I am a Jelly Doughnut". The word ein makes the quote become "I am the food for which the city is famous". Kennedy should have said: "Ich bin Berliner" A comparable mistake in English would be saying "I am a danish" rather than "I am Danish"
84 posted on
06/05/2012 7:51:17 AM PDT by
PapaBear3625
(If I can't be persuasive, I at least hope to be fun.)
To: norwaypinesavage
When I learned German, that Kennedy quote made me laugh so hard!!
Still, if you risk learning a language, you WILL make such mistakes. On a ship, when my French was not yet so fluent, I asked for a sea sickness pill and mimed the motions of the waves going up and down. Sadly I had asked for a birth control pill, so the motions were oddly even more appropriate! (blush!)
95 posted on
06/05/2012 8:02:41 AM PDT by
Yaelle
To: norwaypinesavage
"Ich bin ein Berliner" Or in English "I am Danish" versus "I am a Danish"
To: norwaypinesavage
Wash me down with a Leine and I’ll be happy : )
Good Luck Scott Walker!
286 posted on
06/05/2012 10:54:40 AM PDT by
Shady
(The undeniable truth of the Obama Administration...The numbers do not lie.)
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