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

[Dan Goncharoff]

Ray is right.

I trust the 13 years I spent in Germany instead of 'scholarly evidence',
especially when the 'scholarly evidence' tries to tell me JFK's accent
wasn't bad.

Empirically yours
DanG


On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Reinhold {Rey} Aman <aman at sonic.net> wrote:

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> Dan Goncharoff wrote:
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> > In my view, he said "I am a jelly doughnut."
> >
> Your view is totally wrong.
> >
> > But I agree with the sentiment that it is the thought that counts.
> > JFK's presence in Berlin, and his display of unity with the West
> > Berliners, in German no less, were understood in a very positive way,
> > despite his bad accent and grammar.
> >
> JFK's accent was not "bad" and his grammar was perfect.
>
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> @ Jerry Cohen:
>
> On Nov. 30, 2011, Gerald Leonard Cohen wrote to James A. Landau:
>
>    "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."
>
> Hi, Jerry,
>
> please don't post my copyrighted article.  ADS-Lers who have "Maledicta
> 11" (1995) can re-read my article (pp. 63-64), which is also accessible
> in many university libraries.  Posting my debunking of that *idiotic* "I
> am a jelly doughnut" garbage won't change the mind of Mr. Goncharoff &
> Co., who stubbornly refuse to accept the scholarly evidence
> contradicting their ignorant beliefs.
>
> ~~~ Reinhold {Rey} Aman ~~~
> http://aman.members.sonic.net/contents11.html
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