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Re: woody machine available?



On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:19:53PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> * Roland Bauerschmidt (rb@debian.org) [001202 22:13]:
> > On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 03:56:02PM -0500, Steve Robbins wrote:
> > > > MoiN
> > > 
> > > ... translation, please!
> > 
> > This word is used mainly in northern Germany and it means something
> > like "Good morning", but you can use it no matter what time it is. Well,
> > this description might not be excatly correct, but you get the idea?
> 
> I think it comes form the netherlands and means 'moien dag'. Since I am
> german I would not know how to spell that. But I guess it means 'good day',
> however it is used like 'hi'.
> 
I think it comes from the dutch word 'moguh' wich is slang for 'morgen', which
means morning :)

( I'm dutch ;)

Wouter



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