Moin Moin (was Johansen)

Craig White plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
12 Dec 2002 08:31:43 -0700


Idioms and culture...what a world.

I'm thinking that Hans isn't telling us to lick his...

;-)

Craig

On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 05:03, Vaughn Treude wrote:
> And all this time, I was thinking, "I ought to ask Hans what that means", 
> because it must be some German idiom I never learned in school.  What threw 
> me off was the very un-Germanic spelling.  Otherwise, it makes sense that it 
> would be short for Morgen (morning.)
> 
> Sorry about continuing this seriously OT thread, but it's good to finally 
> know what that "moin moin" business means.  :-)
> 
> Vaughn
> 
> On Wednesday 11 December 2002 23:54, you wrote:
> > somehow, I ran into this...
> >
> >  "Moin Moin
> >
> > SourceForge Project Info
> > Project Homepage
> > FreshMeat Entry
> > PythonNews article on wikis"
> >
> > "MoinMoin is a Python clone of WikiWiki"
> >
> > Just thought I'd let you know.  Find it at:
> >
> > http://www.austinwireless.net/index.cgi/MoinMoin
> >
> > anthony
> >
> > On Wednesday 11 December 2002 02:40 pm, der.hans wrote:
> > > moin, moin,,
> > >
> > > in English, though.
> > >
> > > http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article.jhtml?articleID=453595
> > >
> > > ciao,
> > >
> > > der.hans
> >
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