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Re: Selbtdarstellung, et al
Guten Abend, Tom!
Sorry, I do not want to annoy you with correcting every German word you post,
but maybe learning German as a foreign language is of some interest to some
Who lister. So...
Re:
> NP: "In Munchen staat, ein Hofbrau haus, ein, zwei..."
. .
In Munchen steht ein Hofbrauhaus, eins, zwei...
(Bavarian dialect versions may differ.)
> The denotative nuances notwithstanding, after I posted that last note,
> I thought "self-declaration" was a better definition then the ones I
> cited. I understand that Selbstdarstellung has much more to its
> meaning than a cryptic one word (hyphenated) definition.... but the
> cryptic definitions are easier to type. ;-)
I don't think that "self-declaration" fits well here. But maybe there is
another English word without the prefix "self-" that rather precisely translates
"Selbstdarstellung". Any suggestions?
> Oh, while I'm on the topic of German city/state/foods, when John F
> Kennedy stood at the Berlin Wall and said, "Ich bin ein Berliner" what
> did that mean? I've been told that it means either "I am a Chocolate
> Eclair," and/or "I am a sausage."
I know of two possible meanings of the word "Berliner":
1) an inhabitant of Berlin,
2) kind of a doughnut.
I usually think of 1), but I don't know what JFK had in mind when he read the
above-mentioned sentence off of his little sheet of paper...
.
Herzliche Grusse,
Bernd