[Ads-l] "Ich bin _ein_ Berliner" redux

[Margaret Winters]

A Canadian friend who lives in Berlin once told us that it was taken exactly that way, as an expression of solidarity - and warmly welcomed as a result.  She said that people - at least those she knew or read about - did not think about grammatical errors or jelly doughnuts.


Margaret


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MARGARET E WINTERS
Professor Emerita
French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu



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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2017 2:12 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: "Ich bin _ein_ Berliner" redux

On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 1:50 AM, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> To state Ich bin Berliner would have suggested being born in Berlin,
> whereas adding the word ein implied being a Berliner in spirit.


So, that’s the difference between "Afrikaner" - a native - and "ein
Afrikaner" - down with the African people.

That makes sense.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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