Klarinet Archive - Posting 000044.txt from 2000/02

From: "Kevin Fay (LCA)" <kevinfay@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] freude
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:47:35 -0500

Rien Stein noted:

<<<When Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner" (David or Neil probably can
translate it for you) he also did NOT mean he was a man from Berlin.>>>

My brother spent about 10 years in Germany, becoming proficient in
pidgin-German. Sort of. Anyway, he told me that, given the way President
Kennedy pronounced the sentence (bad German with a very heavy Massachusetts
accent), a better translation would be "I am a jelly doughnut."

This is probably not true, but more humorous than most urban legends.

kjf

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