On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 02:42 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 23:36 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Thursday 11 July 2013 06:12:35 Wilko Fokken wrote: > > > Moin mitnanner, > > > > Could some kind person please translate this for me? > > (although it looks German to me) > > It is German. > > "Moin" is for "Hello". > "mitnanner" is for "everyone", from the German words "mit einander", aka > "zusammen". > > So translated it's "Hello everybody!" > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moin > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_German
Oops, I didn't finish the original mail. "Moin mitnanner!" is Low German for "Guten Tag miteinander!", it became common speech at least in the "Ruhrgebiet". > It's also common to say this in the "Ruhrgebiet" where I'm from. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhr > > Regards, > Ralf > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1374023222.821.14.camel@archlinux
