Berliner or a Berliner

[atalanta]

Hi , I know that proper nouns such as Berlin , Prague , London have zero article. But how about their derivatives - people living there ? Is an inhabitant of Berlin called Berliner or a Berliner ?

[Bennevis]

a Berliner

He is English. (adjective)
He is an Englishman. (noun)

[nyota]

Hi , I know that proper nouns such as Berlin , Prague , London have zero article. But how about their derivatives - people living there ? Is an inhabitant of Berlin called Berliner or a Berliner ?

"A Berliner" would actually mean a doughnut. :)

[TheParser]

"A Berliner" would actually mean a doughnut. :)

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I am sure that you know about President Kennedy's 1963 trip to Berlin when he

announced to the crowd: Ich Bin Ein Berliner. (I am a Berliner.)

[nyota]

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I am sure that you know about President Kennedy's 1963 trip to Berlin when he

announced to the crowd: Ich Bin Ein Berliner. (I am a Berliner.)

That's exactly what I had in mind Parser. It also reminds me of one comedian who said it was fortunate President Kennedy hadn't done a tour of Germany - Ich bin ein Frankfurter, Ich bin ein Hamburger...

[TheParser]

That's exactly what I had in mind Parser. It also reminds me of one comedian who said it was fortunate President Kennedy hadn't done a tour of Germany - Ich bin ein Frankfurter, Ich bin ein Hamburger...

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That's nothing compared with what happened when President Carter visited

Poland. His less-than-proficient interpreter changed one of the president's

English sentences into Polish that meant something like: I want to have romantic

relations with the Polish people.

[nyota]

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That's nothing compared with what happened when President Carter visited

Poland. His less-than-proficient interpreter changed one of the president's

English sentences into Polish that meant something like: I want to have romantic

relations with the Polish people.

I didn't know that one , but I found more bloopers of the same interpreter: President Carter & Polish interpreter

[Tdol]

...Tony Blair's effort some years ago during a news conference with French PM Lionel Jospin. Blair, who spoke French quite well, meant to say: ''I admire Lionel Jospin, although we have differing views.'' Unfortunately, his French apparently translated as: ''I desire Lionel Jospin in many different positions.''

www.theage.com.au - PM Gives Speech To US Congress

[TheParser]

[QUOTE=nyota;804593]I didn't know that one


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(1) Actually you did.

(2) I paraphrased the first "blooper" that appears in your excellent link.

(a) I was too modest and shy to repeat the exact words, so I tried to express

the idea in a more delicate manner.

[TheParser]

www.theage.com.au - PM Gives Speech To US Congress

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I read somewhere that most French people are quite amused when British people

try to speak French.