Dispute According to many a translation site and many a German the correct way to say you are from a certain city is to say Ich bin city While we all love JFK and everyone knows exactly what he wanted to say he did in fact call himself a Berliner a type of jelly doughnut While we can not dispute what he was trying to say this is not an urban legend and JFK did call himself a doughnut Needs more documentation on how this is to be the correct way to say you are from a German city even if he did stress the ein