Je suis un Charlie would marke the difference.

Am Freitag, 16. Januar 2015 17:00:53 UTC+1 schrieb archytas:
>
> We wouldn't make that distinction in English.  I am Warringtonian or a 
> Warringtonian could be held to have different meanings - the first perhaps 
> a person reflecting Warrington, the latter just some poor sod unfortunate 
> enough to be born or live in the dump.  Most of it makes that rabbit hutch 
> you once put me in a desirable residence.  One couldn't distinguish the 
> meaning on grammar - it would all be in tone.  Je suis charlie is beginning 
> to feel as 'constructed' as the JFK myth to me.
>
> On Thursday, January 15, 2015 at 9:54:02 PM UTC, Gabby wrote:
>>
>> Both forms are correct if I say them and both wrong if JFK had meant them 
>> non-politically. Ich bin Berliner translates I am (from/somehow connected 
>> to) Berlin, and Ich bin ein Berliner translates I am a Berliner.
>>
>> Am Donnerstag, 15. Januar 2015 18:44:00 UTC+1 schrieb archytas:
>>>
>>> I'm with the first line Allan.  I'd guess the correct German would be 
>>> Ich bin Berliner rather than what JFK said.  I wouldn't use my time machine 
>>> to go back and stop the guy to ensure we didn't have to 'put up with' 
>>> Gabby.  Of course, if Gladstone had had his way, your Confederate sabre 
>>> would have ended up on the winning side until the Brits, Russians and 
>>> French took over and divided up the US.
>>>
>>> On Thursday, 15 January 2015 08:51:16 UTC, Allan Heretic wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yes you are correct almost. The reason there is the on going problems 
>>>> is conservitive cowards that are afraid to stand up for anything just so 
>>>> the don't disturb their pitiful realities.
>>>> June 26 1963 the news headlines read. "Ich bin ein Berliner" the 
>>>> terrorism of soviet communism was stood up to.
>>>> Today i am called names cursed at .. if the attitude displayed by gabby 
>>>> was taken in 1963..  where would Gabby be.. would we even know her?
>>>> What am I listening to.
>>>> Incedently ww2 was cemented into action in 1919 with the treaty people 
>>>> were forced to sign that ended ww1..
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين
>>>> Évitez; assassiner, le viol et l'esclavage des autres
>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]>
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Sent: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 4:29 AM
>>>> Subject: Mind's Eye So what's wrong with je suis charlie?
>>>>
>>>> Killing cartoonists clearly can't be allowed.  There is no absolute 
>>>> authority for jihad, crusades or lacking a self-depreciating sense of 
>>>> humour prepared to rip loved ones from the lives of relatives and friends. 
>>>>  The most common 'cause' of killing and war in primitive societies is 
>>>> revenge, generally pretty dumb.
>>>>
>>>> On the day Charlie Hebdo was struck, Boko Haram was doing much worse in 
>>>> Nigeria and 2000 died.  Yemen was pasted again.  25 million or so have 
>>>> died 
>>>> in wars after WW2 and any number of people have had peaceful lives 
>>>> destroyed by various forms of imperialism.  We understand revenge films 
>>>> where the child not slaughtered by Barbarians grows to destroy them.  
>>>> There 
>>>> are at least questions we should be asking on whether fundamentalist Islam 
>>>> is radicalising terrorists, or the various imperialisms and the conditions 
>>>> these create in countries kept poor and run by installed despots.
>>>>
>>>> Institutional religion is no use to me and I detest the hostility of 
>>>> those believers who would have me respect belief in superstition,clearly 
>>>> false history, varieties of justified sexism, racism, apartheid and 
>>>> selfish 
>>>> chosen-peopleism.  This extends far beyond religion and to false ideas 
>>>> that 
>>>> the Greek Enlightenment was the zenith of civilisation. This was a sexist, 
>>>> racist, slave economy.  Western democratic free trade liberalism is such a 
>>>> lie as to be merely another control fraud, not the end of history.
>>>>
>>>> There is little clarity.  We stand as Charlie for free speech, yet do 
>>>> nothing against indecent Saudi floggings and beheadings. We have never 
>>>> produced democratic foreign policy, population control or sustained peace. 
>>>>  Now we are arresting people protesting publicly against Charlie, somewhat 
>>>> contradictory to say the least.  All that seems clear is that we are all 
>>>> Charleys, without much of a system to openly discuss what is wrong, 
>>>> leaving 
>>>> tyranny anywhere a threat to freedom everywhere.
>>>>
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