Date:  Fri, 5 Dec 1997 09:45:50 EST
From:  Larry Horn <LHORN[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALEVM.CIS.YALE.EDU>
Subject: Re: "Ich bin ein Berliner"

 David Bergdahl writes:

>There is no question that Kennedy's utterance was interpretable in the
>sense he meant it, but I believe the usual utterance would be "Ich komme
>aus Berlin"--the "Ich bin. . ." sounds like a calque.

Interesting. For an English speaker, "I am a New Yorker" is quite different
from "I am from New York". Is the distinction neutralized in German?   LH