Ich Ein Bin Berliner, Ask me anything

[JohnKleeb]

and thats all the German I know.

[maveric]

1. What flavor filling do you have?

[JohnKleeb]

2. ahh jelly

classic jelly donut.

[tuvor]

3. "I a am jellydonut"?

[JohnKleeb]

6. Yes

[hfojvt]

4. most people know

Sprechen Sie Deutsch? - Do you speak German, sir (or ma'am)?
Danke schoen - thank you very much (literally thank you beautiful)
dummkopf - dumb head
schweinhund - pig dog
halt - stop
macht schnell - go fast
tannenbaum - fir tree
arbeit macht frei - work makes you free (posted at concentration camps)
Mein Kampf - my struggle
blitzkreig - lightning war
blitzen - lightning
donder - thunder (except that is Dutch, in Deutsch it is donner)
himmel - heaven (or skies)
volkswagen - people's wagon
nein - no
guten tag - good day
Deutschland ueber alles - Germany over everything
sauerkraut - sour cabbage
kraft - strength
klein - small
Some of these we might wish were not so well known. Also, if you live in a German area you probably know alot of German in the form of surnames, but you might not know their meanings - schaefer, schneider, koch, kohl, eisenhauer, etc.

[JohnKleeb]

7. I have a German last name but thats all the German I got

[Dirk39]

26. Du hast keinen deutschen Nachnamen!

Are you sure, you have a german last name?
There's a german verb: "kleben" (to stick), but there's just one "e".
And I couldn't think of many german words, nouns or verbs that have two "vocals" like in your last name "Kl-ee-b".
But I still love you anyway, 'cause I guess it's because of you, I know, who Dennis Kucinich is. And I still admire this guy and what he tried to do. If there is any better American (and Berliner anyway) - it's Dennis!

Mach es gut,
Dirk

[maveric]

10. Scheisskopf = Shithead

Schadenfruende = ?

[hfojvt]

14. schadenfreude

schaden means pleasure
freude means injury
pleasure in other's injury
also:
Gott - god
Gott mit uns - god with us
Gott im himmel - god in the heavens
verboten - forbidden
achtung - attention
weltanschauung - world view
haasenpfeffer - rabbit stew with peppers
also there are many words which are the same in both languages like hotel, hospital, auto
and words which sound the same in both languages like bier = beer

[Dirk39]

27. Scheisskopf doesn't exist....

in Germany. Noone is using it. And I know everything from scheissen to ficken to Arschloch to Pissrinne. Just ask me!

Reminds me somehow of "Handys". The german word for mobile phones. Everybody thinks it's english!
Or "Dressman", a term used for male models in Germany, but not in the USA or GB, while it is an "english" word, not a german word.

Aber mein Kopf ist auch voll Scheisse!
Dirk

[elperromagico]

16. Sturm = Storm. Drang = Stress.

[hfojvt]

17. not to mention und = and n/t

[imenja]

23. sauerkraut

and gesundheit, or is that yiddish?

[Dirk39]

28. It's not yiddish, but it's as if...

half of the world, or to be more moderate, 90% of the world would mistake some provinciell hicks in Texas with the USA.

"Sauerkraut" is South-Germany, and the only reason I didn't devide South-Germany "Bavaria" from the rest of Germany, is that they would unite with Austria - the home of Schwarzenegger and Hitler - and Ungaria with Vienna as their capitol, and the fourth Reich would start....


I don't eat Sauerkraut, I don't know Sauerkraut!

Dirk

[imenja]

29. I thought you were simply listing German words we now in the US

so I offered two I knew. I certainly didn't mean it as any description of your cultural being.

[Dirk39]

34. I'm not that serious!

Not at all, this thread is just fun for me, but sometimes, I'm kind of annoyed about these prejudices.
It's really as if the rest of the world would think of Americans as being borne on top of a horse, eating beans, wearing a colt and a stupid hat, getting along with about 3 to 12 wordsd very well, to express themselves. Although it's only their elected President, who's like this :-)

Dirk

[imenja]

30. I eat sauerkraut! I know sauerkraut!

it's very tasty.

[UncleSepp]

31. I knew sauerkraut. Sauerkraut was a friend of mine.

You, cole slaw, are no Sauerkraut!

[imenja]

46. that's funny

:thumbsup:

[Dirk39]

32. O.K. as long as you just eat it....

and don't buy a specific kind of "Lederhose" (leather trouser" along with it and start to produce a kind of noise that a certain kind of Germans could think of as music, I can live with it.
I have to admit that last year, when nobody else was watching me, I did buy some Sauerkraut and I did eat it.
I'm a Hamburger, don't eat me!

Dirk

[Dirk39]

33. What kind of meat is in your pan....

along with the Sauerkraut? Sauerkraut is just a side-dish like Potatoes.
Tell me the truth! If it's not Weisswurst, it's o.k. with me!


Dirk

[imenja]

42. pork chops

I'm from the Midwest. I don't even know what Weisswurst is, other than from the name I assume it's a kind of sausage.

[hfojvt]

40. you lost me there

are the Bavarians the provincial hicks or does that include Schwaben as well? Or maybe we would unite with Alsace and der Schweiz to form Rhenland and make the EU a little less Prussian dominated?
That's okay about Bavaria. I have met exactly two people with Bavarian ancestry and they rate as two of the worst people I have met, but I do have alot of relatives named Bayer.
Ich bin ein Frankfurter.

[Dirk39]

41. Frankfurter, Hamburger, Sauerkraut...

Did you ever slightly recognized a kind of paranoia that other people just don't accept you, but want to eat you?

The Northamericans still eat Hamburgers like me, and they seem to still eat Sauerkraut. And the only reason, they don't eat Frankfurter is that Bush's ancestors re-named Frankfurter into Hot Dogs during World-War-I. Otherwise, they would still cook and eat you, just like Freedom Fries.
I'm afraid of Americans. I cannot answer any question.
I'm paranoid, lost in the DU Lounge and paranoid.

Hiding in Germany,
Dirk

[Lenape85]

5. Nein, Nein, Nein, ich bin ein Geleeschaumgummiring

[JohnKleeb]

8. Oh nein

[auntAgonist]

11. oh ten ?

:)

[Dirk39]

20. Kann ich Dir irgendwie behilflich sein?

Solltest Du wirklich ein Geleeschaumgummiring sein, stört es Dich, wenn ich Dich esse?

Hmmmmm! Lecker!
Dirk

[auntAgonist]

9. ~shrugs~

Ich spreche Deutsche nicht, aber ich würde lieben zu lernen. Ich denke, dass es eine schöne Sprache ist.


I don't speak German but I would love to learn. I think it's a beautiful language.

[rwenos]

12. German "Beautiful"

Now that's a first. Ever read Mark Twain's essay about German?

[auntAgonist]

13. Nope .. but I DO like the way it sounds ..

I also love the sound of Gaelic ..

[hfojvt]

15. it is, like many things, available on-line

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/jod/texts/twain.german.html

[LeftyMom]

18. Did you know you messed that up?

Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner," which wasn't correct, either.

[Dirk39]

21. Kennedy was correct grammatical....

Our beloved John Kleeb was wrong grammatical and empirical!

Er war nur kein Berliner!
Aber das war doch metaphorisch gemeint!

But we still wait for John to come here to Germany, long after the liberation of the USA, removing corrupt Corporations from power in Germany and stating: Ich ein bin Berliner.

We will understand him!

Hallo aus Deutschland,
Dirk

[LeftyMom]

22. I defer to your (obviously) better knowledge of the language

I have only two years of high school German under my belt, so I really only know enough to mangle the language badly and make myself sound foolish. :)

[Dirk39]

25. I have many more years of English under my belt,....

and I'm still not really good, while reading isn't a problem.
And my french is even worse. So whenever there's a thread like this at DU, it makes me feel sooooo good (for a second!)

The funny thing about Kennedy is that in real German, it's: Ich bin ein Berliner. But the Berlin dialect goes like "Ick" instead of "Ich" and this is what Kennedy did say, although it did sound very very American.

Liebe Grüsse,
Dirk

[Dirk39]

19. Ich bin ein Hamburger...

don't ask me about articles and verbs!
a being Hamburger,
I like 'd I a 'm New Yorker....


Your family name in German means "Stick"!

Hallo,
Dirk

[jdots]

24. John a question ............or 3

why do the commercials on t.v. cost more to produce than the shows ? why did anyone pay attention to Allister Crowley ?
how many dimensions are there this week ?

[flygal]

35. I know a little German

his name is Fritz

**rim shot**

[Der Blaue Engel]

36. Was liegt in meinen Händen In ihrem heißen Kuss?

[Dirk39]

37. Marlene, Blue Angel, don't you cry!

Your the most loved antifascist german traitor ever around!


Don't you worry your pretty head I'll never let you down I'll always be around Blue Angel! Blue Angel!


Das ist, was soll ich machen, meine Natur.
Ich kann halt lieben nur –
Und sonst gar nichts.

Dirk

[Der Blaue Engel]

38. Yay, someone recognized it!

:)

I don't know a lick of German, actually; had to hunt that down for the German lyrics.

But, like someone else said earlier, I too love the sound of it. One of these days I'm going to take a class.

[Dirk39]

39. Especially your quote does sound much more beautifull...

in german. The people, who did translate the lyrics did stay away from it. And I'm not the poet to do it better.

You have to live with the sound...

je ne sais pas quoi,
Dirk

[jdonaldball]

43. Was Grandpa Stroehman ever in the SS?

[Kellanved]

44. Wow, what a coincidence.

:hi:
http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/index.php/Ich_bin_ein_Berliner

[Lavender Brown]

45. "the urban legend predates Babelfish"

LOL. :thumbsup: