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L O W L A N D S - L - 07 January 2007 - Volume 01<br>======================================================================<br><br>From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: Etymology
<br><br>I wrote wrote re the greeting <span style="font-style: italic;">Moin</span> 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
<span style="font-style: italic;">Morgen</span>.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>Regards,<br>Reinhard/Ron<br><br>----------<br><br>From: <span id="_user_theohoman@yahoo.com" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Theo Homan <<a href="mailto:theohoman@yahoo.com">theohoman@yahoo.com</a>></span><br>Subject: LL-L 'Etymology'
2007.01.06 (01) [E]<br><br><span class="q">> From: Karl-Heinz Lorenz <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Karl-Heinz.Lorenz@gmx.net">Karl-Heinz.Lorenz@gmx.net</a>><br>> Subject: LL-L 'Etymology'
2007.01.04 (02) [E/LS]<br>><br>> Moinmoin leeglanners!<br>><br>> For me "moinmoin" seems to be a shorted or<br>> "verschluckte" form of "moien<br>> mor'n", as some writers on
<br>><br>> <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinEtymology" target="_blank">http://moinmoin.wikiwikiweb.de/MoinMoinEtymology</a><br>> stated.<br><br>
</span><div style="direction: ltr;">[...]<br><br>Hello,<br><br>And well, this person wouldn't be surprised if<br>"moinmoin" has been influenced by the Scandinavian:<br>'morn morn'; this is the written form, but the
<br>visitors from Northern Germany would surely recognise<br>'moin', but then twice.<br><br>[And this person would like it a lot if this same<br>people would imitate the Scand. 'takktakktakktakk'.]<br><br>
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://vr.gr/" target="_blank">vr.gr</a>.<br></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="sg">Theo Homan<br><br>----------<br></span><br>
From: <span id="_user_globalmoose@t-online.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25);">Global Moose Translations <<a href="mailto:globalmoose@t-online.de">globalmoose@t-online.de</a>></span><br>
Subject: LL-L 'Etymology' 2007.01.06 (03) [E]<br><br><div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>Marcus
Buck wrote:</span></font></div>
<div><font><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff" size="2"><span class="q">>Only people with an academic point of view see the
special<br>>features of East Frisian Platt at all, so "normal" dialect
speakers or<br></span>>non-dialect-speaking-regionalists don't hav any sense for
such dialectal<br>>"subtleties".</font></font></span></font></div>
<div><font><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">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.</font></font></span></font></div>
<div><font><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">All you high-falutin' linguists out there really don't know why the
greeting "Moin" has become so popular in recent years, huh?
;-)</font></font></span></font></div>
<div><font><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">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.</font></font></span></font></div>
<div><font><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">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.</font></font></span></font></div>
<div><font><span></span></font> </div>
<div><font><span><font face="Arial"><font color="#0000ff" size="2">Gabriele Kahn</font></font></span></font><br>
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