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From: deb5@midway.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff)
Subject: Re: "It is me" vs. "It is I"
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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:04:43 GMT
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In article <56sp3l$id6@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,  <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>In article <E12z5A.8J6@midway.uchicago.edu>,
>Daniel von Brighoff <deb5@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
>>In article <56qb10$ime@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>,  <Brian.Kelk@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>German:             Das bin ich.
>>
>>	This is emphatic.  The usual translation of "It's me!" in this
>>context (i.e. in answer to the question "Who's there?") is "Ich bin's."
>. . .
>The context where I heard the above was when someone pointed to
>a photograph and said "That's me". What is an emphatic context?

	So why did you post it as an equivalent to "*It's* me"?  These two
phrases don't mean the same thing at all.

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