On 07/16/2013 09:07 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > 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 >> > > > Doggpne! Just when I begin to think my German is not bad, something like this comes along! (It's not the first time. Quite some years ago I was sent to Germany on business, to Stuttgart. Listening to the people in that area speak among themselves, I could hardly understand a word! But when they spoke to me, ein Fremder, they spoke good German.) Interesting country!
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