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Re: OT: How to get Dot files out of the way via shell scripts



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
> 



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