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Main Forums => Politics => Topic started by: freakazoid on August 17, 2017, 10:22:51 AM
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[tinfoil] https://www.google.co.jp/search?ei=OKWVWfnlDoqx8QWP6p7wCw&q=american+inventors&oq=american+inven&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.1.0.0l5.7180.14233.0.16747.20.16.4.6.6.0.267.2772.0j3j10.13.0....0...1.1j4.64.mobile-gws-serp..3.17.1667.3..46j35i39k1j0i67k1j0i46k1.cs5fjL729XI
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That's what you get for searching Google Japan.
https://www.google.co.jp/search?ei=OKWVWfnlDoqx8QWP6p7wCw&q=american+inventors&oq=american+inven&gs_l=mobile-gws-serp.1.0.0l5.7180.14233.0.16747.20.16.4.6.6.0.267.2772.0j3j10.13.0....0...1.1j4.64.mobile-gws-serp..3.17.1667.3..46j35i39k1j0i67k1j0i46k1.cs5fjL729XI
Searching "American Inventors" in plain old Google.com returns the results in English language format.
Brad
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Same results from the US. :P
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Oh, now I see what the deal is. I was looking at the language thing, not the results thing.
Brad
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As much as I despise google, it is probably due to items tagged "African american inventors"....
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Seems awfully weighted to the melanin enhanced side. I get those results simply Googling "american inventors"
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https://www.amren.com/news/2016/09/great-moments-in-google-american-inventors/
Thought this sounded familiar.
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There is the token white guy there in Edison...
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There is the token white guy there in Edison...
Pffft.. But Peanut butter!
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Duckduckgo shows similar results, but I think they are an aggregator, so that would make sense considering google's user numbers. Bing throws Edison and Franklin in, and also interestingly says "American inventors frequently mentioned on the web". So if a few million public school kids are told to do a homework assignment on black American inventors, that could definitely skew the historical hits that lead to these results.
Here is Mexican Google:
https://www.google.com.mx/search?source=hp&q=inventor+americano&oq=inventor+am&gs_l=psy-ab.1.0.0l4.3368.8145.0.10146.11.11.0.0.0.0.200.1482.0j9j1.10.0..2..0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.10.1477...0i131k1.JksIkbQnq3w
Here is German Google:
https://www.google.de/search?source=hp&q=Amerikanische+erfinder&oq=Amerikanische+erfinder&gs_l=psy-ab.13..0l2j0i22i30k1l2.27575.27575.0.30009.1.1.0.0.0.0.118.118.0j1.1.0....0...1.2.64.psy-ab..0.1.118.1h4aJkQ1Vdg
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Here is German Google:
https://www.google.de/search?source=hp&q=Amerikanische+erfinder&oq=Amerikanische+erfinder&gs_l=psy-ab.13..0l2j0i22i30k1l2.27575.27575.0.30009.1.1.0.0.0.0.118.118.0j1.1.0....0...1.2.64.psy-ab..0.1.118.1h4aJkQ1Vdg
Emil Berliner is the inventor of the Jelly-filled Doughnut. The greatest inventor in human history.
(only Ben will get this joke.)
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No, I get it as well...
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No, I get it as well...
Then you know that JFK was jelly-filled pastry.
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Google "european people history". Choice of images are interesting for sure.
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Then you know that JFK was jelly-filled pastry.
Well, he DID infamously say "I am a jelly [doughnut]!" (Ich bin Berliner)
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Well, he DID infamously say "I am a jelly [doughnut]!" (Ich bin Berliner)
Popular misconception. Him saying "Ich bin ein Berliner" is perfectly acceptable. Anyways, in the good part of Germany, those doughnuts are called Fasnetskiachla. :)
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Well, he DID infamously say "I am a jelly [doughnut]!" (Ich bin Berliner)
He said "Ich bin eine Berliner." It was, a few years later, MIStranslated in a book to "I'm a jelly doughnut." This was because the author believed that you don't use "ein" or "a" when you translated "I am a Berliner" into German from English.
"I am an American" would be "Ich bin Amerikaner" when properly thus translated.
But the author was actually wrong. Kennedy was not actually from Berlin and of course, was not German, and everyone knew it. What he was doing was using rhetoric, saying "I am with you." In German, using rhetoric, it actually IS correct to use the "ein" in the place Kennedy used it. No German there was surprised or annoyed, they knew what he said.
But that misunderstanding in that book "went viral," as we say now. It's become a urban legend of sorts.
But Kennedy actually did get it right.
EDIT: oooops, Ben beat me to it. :facepalm:
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Ya learn sumpin new every day!
At least I got the reference. Do I get at least partial credit? :old:
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Ya learn sumpin new every day!
At least I got the reference. Do I get at least partial credit? :old:
Nein.
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Ya learn sumpin new every day!
At least I got the reference. Do I get at least partial credit? :old:
You get a Berliner. =D
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Do they do yard work?
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Nein.
Nein out of Ten? I'll take it! :P
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Nein out of Ten? I'll take it! :P
:facepalm:
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No German there was surprised or annoyed, they knew what he said.
This little American boy was there and wasn't surprised or annoyed either. I didn't know what he said though, my German then is about as good as it is now. ;)
bob