edit: I love how Europeans still struggle to believe that these are what America sees as pancakes. For context, these buttermilk pancakes were so big that I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one. If you went to our “International House of Pancakes(IHOP)” and ordered pancakes, this is what you’d get. America really is on another level.

  • Berengaria_of_Navarre@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Ok now I know. As an island monkey, the subtleties of the German language are largely lost on me. Although I am led to believe that if he’d tried to express solidarity with the people of Paris, it would have raised a chuckle?

    • yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Je suis un Parisian? I don’t speak French so this is the closest thing I can try. Besides, if you look at the whole speech it doesn’t even require much nuance:

      Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum [“I am a Roman citizen”]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is “Ich bin ein Berliner!”… All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner!”

      It’s the difference between:

      “I am a Londoner” and “I am from London”