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Eddie Izzard made the best comparison to help it click: if a resident of Frankfurt were to hear "I am a Frankfurter", it still makes perfect sense, even if it a
by lukifer 13y ago
Eddie Izzard made the best comparison to help it click: if a resident of Frankfurt were to hear "I am a Frankfurter", it still makes perfect sense, even if it also means "I am a hot dog".
- mikeash 13y agoFunny how it works perfectly fine for "I am a Frankfurter," but I can't see it working for "I am a Wiener."
- comrade_ogilvy 13y agoA Wiener might be a person from Wien, Osterreich (which translates to Vienna, Austria in English).
- mikeash 13y agoI know, but at least when rendered in English, "I am a Wiener" does not work to indicate a city.
- dublinben 13y agoThe correct English transliteration would be more like "vienner" which pretty closely follows the common English practice of adding an -er suffix to denote someone's place of origin. http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/er_4 http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/er_4
- dublinben 13y agoUnsurprisingly, wieners are called frankfurters in Wien (Vienna). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiener_W%C3%BCrstchen https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiener_W%C3%BCrstchen