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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: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 19:22:22 GMT
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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."
Note that Germans say "Ich auch." in contexts where English speakers quite
naturally use "Me too."
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