On Sat, 15 Nov 2003 18:03:29 -0500, G.R. Patterson III wrote:

The editors of several Berlin newspapers would be surprised to hear that
(Berliner Morgenpost, Berliner Zeitung, etc.). Berliner refers to a resident
of Berlin, just as a Hamburger is a denizen of Hamburg and a Frankfurter
resides in Frankfurt.

"Ich bin Berliner" translates as "I am a Berliner". "Ich bin EIN Berliner"
translates as "I am a jelly doughnut".

No.

"I am a New Yorker" means that I am from New York and would not mean that I
am a fashion store ('New Yorker' is the name of a local retail chain for
clothing).

JFK said it in West-Berlin, in the high time of the cold war. That the
Berlin wall was the lesser bad thing for the US than any heavier conflict
with the countries behind the iron curtain is another story and might have
started at the meeting in Vienna with Khrushchev in 1961.

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