We're all Keynesians now -- ("Ich bin ein Berliner")

[Dan Goncharoff]

Neiither of the first two links contradict the claim that JFK said "I
am a jelly doughnut".

The first states that the audience understood what he meant.

The second states that it would have sounded silly to say it correctly
because of JFK's accent, so saying it incorrectly was preferred.

The third link seems broken.

DanG



On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:34 AM, Ben Zimmer
<bgzimmer at babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
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> For debunkings, see:
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> http://www.watzmann.net/scg/faq-25.html
> http://urbanlegends.about.com/cs/historical/a/jfk_berliner.htm
> http://tafkac.org/language/kennedy_berliner_quote.html
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> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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>> Please do. My 13 years in Germany lead me to the jelly doughnut interpretation.
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Cohen, Gerald Leonard wrote:
>> >
>> > I assume this is a joke.  If not, I'll dig out Reinhold Aman's article in which he (in his inimitable Reinhold Aman style)
>> > rebuts the jelly-doughnut-myth.
>> >
>> > Message from James A. Landau (JJJRLandau at netscape.com), Wed 11/30/2011 9:22 AM:
>> >
>> > And who can forget President Kennedy's immortal line in a speech he gave in West Berlin:
>> >
>> > "I am a jelly doughnut"
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