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L O W L A N D S - L - 07 January 2007 - Volume 01
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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

I wrote wrote re the greeting Moin and ought to have reiterated that this
greeting can be used anytime of the day, not only in the morning.  This just
to add to the doubts that it was derived from Morgen.

Even if it is a relatively new greeting as far as its widespread use is
concerned, it does not preclude it having been used in earlier times in
certain dialects.

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron

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From: Theo Homan <theohoman at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.01.06 (01) [E]

> From: Karl-Heinz Lorenz <Karl-Heinz.Lorenz at gmx.net>
> Subject:  LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.01.04 (02) [E/LS]
>
> Moinmoin leeglanners!
>
> For me "moinmoin" seems to be a shorted or
> "verschluckte" form of "moien
> mor'n", as some writers on
>
> http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinEtymology
> stated.

[...]

Hello,

And well, this person wouldn't be surprised if
"moinmoin" has been influenced by the Scandinavian:
'morn morn'; this is the written form, but the
visitors from Northern Germany would surely recognise
'moin', but then twice.

[And this person would like it a lot if this same
people would imitate the Scand. 'takktakktakktakk'.]

vr.gr.
Theo Homan

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From: Global Moose Translations <globalmoose at t-online.de>
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.01.06 (03) [E]

Marcus Buck wrote:
>Only people with an academic point of view see the special
>features of East Frisian Platt at all, so "normal" dialect speakers or
>non-dialect-speaking-regionalists don't hav any sense for such dialectal
>"subtleties".

Well, here in Southern Lower Saxony, the Platt spoken used to be quite
different from one village to the next, and people were well aware of it.

All you high-falutin' linguists out there really don't know why the greeting
"Moin" has become so popular in recent years, huh? ;-)

There is a very good and extremely popular children's show on German TV,
called "Die Sendung mit der Maus". I think it is available in other
countries, too (Japan, for one), but not in the USA. It is watched devotely
by many adults, too (me and my family included), because they show and
explain in great detail how beachballs are manufactured, how the stripes get
into the toothpaste, how biathletes train, how an egg timer works, and many
more such things that you often cannot learn about anywhere else. Also, at
the start of each programme, they announce what they are going to show in
both German and a foreign language, from Xhosa to Inuit. It's always fun to
guess what the featured languge is.

Well, they adopted this greeting a few years ago, starting each show with
"Moin, moin, moin", or "Moin, moin, Mausefans". That's the main reason why
it spread as suddenly and thoroughly as it did.

Gabriele Kahn

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