Does Ich bin ein Berliner really mean I am a doughnut?

Love the common knowledge things that turn out to be wrong.. apprently on the BBC news last week they said that we dont use 10% of our brains.. its apprently alot more..

https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7153880.stm

Dont go here then.. https://herzeleid.com/en/lyrics/sehnsucht#du_hast

Damn you!

Ah, but that's just the literal translation. It's actually a cool play on words in German.

You see du hast (you have) and du hasst (you hate) sound exactly the same.

It's also the German wedding vows, to which he responds "nein" instead of "ja".

Bastards, the lot of you.

Here I am deluding myself into thinking it's a song about something hyper-masculine, like bombing raids or murderous rampages or something.

But no. It's a play on wedding vows. Awesome. I love banging my head to wordplay and weddings.

So I shouldn't point out that most Rammstein songs are kinda twisted love songs then?

What's German for "die, jerkface"?

Or that in Sonne they are singing "here comes the sun"

Or that part of Mein Hertz Brent is taken from a childrens show called "The little sandman"?

Sterben sie, ruck-gesicht

Doesn't translate too well, since ruck is the literal for jerk as inthe movement to jerk. Not sure if there's an equivalent German insult.

Ah, and I guess you'd be less polite, so

Sterbst du, ruck-gesicht.

A german would probably think you wanted to kill them by shaking their face.

Yea. I don't think JFK realized it, but I think the real Berliners knew what he meant.

Read the thread. It wasn't a mistake. He said precisely what a real Berliner would have said. His meaning was completely unambiguous and 100% clear.

Wow weird, I always thought Rammstein's (sp? ) lyrics were about manly things and dark stuff, but nope, wedding vows

And I?m a donut