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Date:      Mon, 17 Jul 1995 09:20:55 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault)
Cc:        jhs@vector.eikon.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, chat@freebsd.org, thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de
Subject:   Re: problem building lang/icon on 2.0.5R
Message-ID:  <199507170720.JAA28651@ghpc6.ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <199507162031.QAA01794@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Jul 16, 95 04:30:59 pm

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Peter Dufault wrote:
> 
> Julian Stacey writes:
> > 
> > I'm going to the FreeBSD-Europe user group meeting in Aachen  95 09 02&03,
> > I guess I'll hear Thomas Gellekum <thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> then,
> > 
> > but Aachen's only half way up Germany, well out of the dialect area
> > that says `Moin' (so says my Aachen born & bred girlfriend :-)
> 
> I was going to say Hamburg, but Thomas's sig had an aachen in it.  I guess
> he is from out of town.

I'm from Mönchengladbach, which is about 60 km NE from Aachen.  But
I have learned a long time ago that `moin' (or `moin moin'), as used
in Northern Germany, is a greeting independent from the time of day
(making it especially appropriate for an international forum such as
this) and I have made a habit of using it since then.

In the Lower Rhine area, you will hear `morjen' (mo:(r)jen), but
that's just a dialect form of `guten morgen' (`good morning').

tg



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