Re: Multi Language Support on the AS/400 -Reply

At 6:30 PM 7/1/97, boothm@earth.goddard.edu wrote:
>Wasn't it JFK that said "I am a jelly doughnut!" at the Berlin Wall?
>
>In <970701115525_1077449911@emout16.mail.aol.com>, on 07/01/97
>   at 11:55 AM, CVWD@aol.com said:
>
>#And then there is the famous "The spirit is willing but the flesh is
>#weak" translated to "The vodka is strong but the meat is rotten".
>#Computer based language translation has a loooong way to go.


As I understand JFK's slip, it was a case of idiom vs textbook.  JFK said
(pardon the spelling), "Ich bin -ein- Berliner."  Correct, by the book, 'I
am a Berliner.'  Unfortunately, a 'Berliner' is/was also a popular jelly
doughnut.  Idiomatic usage would have said, "Ich bin Berliner,"  'I am
Berliner.'

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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