From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 22 2000 - 08:40:31 EDT
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<div>To anticipate a question that one or two other German-speakers
might raise, let me cite a note I had from one of our German lurkers
and my response to him:</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>At 9:27 AM +0200 6/22/00, Carsten
Schmelzer wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" cite>
<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">Hi
Carl,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1">... let me tell you
that there is a little error in your german
sentence.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote> </blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000"><i>Lass' sie nach Berlin en
kommen!</i> Let them come to Berlin!"</font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font color="#000000"><br></font></blockquote>
<blockquote><font face="Arial" size="-1" color="#000000">The word
"en" here is too much - and not german
anyway.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I KNEW it was wrong, but I copied the
text from an "official" transcript of the speech; I said
that Kennedy didn't know German and I think he may have simply added
the syllable from what he thought he heard the crowd
saying.</blockquote>
<div>-- <br>
<br>
Carl W. Conrad<br>
Department of Classics, Washington University<br>
Summer: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243<br>
cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cwconrad@ioa.com<br>
WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/>
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