Doughnut/Berliner
am 05.07.2008 von Transblawg
I was a jelly donut
This topic has frequently been mentioned here - for instance in this 2005 entry. But it refuses to die the death. It is really entrenched in the USA.
paperpools took it up recently, linking to the NYT book blog, and fortunately this led to a useful entry in the Bremer Sprachblog.
Paper Cuts talked to Michael Jennings, the chairman of the German department at Princeton University.
After you wrote to me, I did a bit of informal research myself — talking to lots of friends in Berlin. And their responses were all over the map. Certainly the most common and accepted way to say “I’m a resident of Berlin” is “Ich bin Berliner,” i.e. without the indefinite article. But, for many speakers, it is by no means incorrect or ungrammatical to say “Ich bin ein Berliner.” …
University of Berlin?
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German legalese
Transblawg / In an earlier entry I linked to a site showing how to create a long German legal sentence. I believe that must have been a plagiarism, because jurabilis now quotes a file with that material in it as being by...…
VG Berlin: Datenschutzrechtlicher Auskunft gegenüber Verfassungsschutz
Kanzlei Dr. Bahr: Recht der Neuen Medien / Der Berliner Verfassungsschutz muss über einen von einem Mitglied des Sozialforum Berlin gestellten Antrag auf Datenauskunft neu entscheiden. Das hat das Verwaltungsgericht Berlin in einem am 30. Januar 2008 verkündeten Urteil entschieden, das…
Buch: Das österreichische Deutsch im Rahmen der EU, Markhardt
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Global English article in FT
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Mitgehört in Berlin
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» Germanic Languages and Literatures | Michael Jennings
Germanic Languages and Literatures: Princeton University Department of German
» Ich bin What? - Paper Cuts - Books - New York Times Blog
The editors of The Book Review on books and publishing.
» paperpools: I am a doughnut, oder?
» Urban legends/Ich bin kein Pfannkuchen - Transblawg
In an important discussion about doughnuts on an ITI list, <a href="http://www.hetranslation.co.uk/">Herbert Eppel</a>'s
» Bremer Sprachblog » Ich bin (k)ein Pfannkuchen
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