{"id":295,"date":"2004-08-28T12:25:19","date_gmt":"2004-08-28T12:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maydanoz.arved.priv.at\/blog\/?p=295"},"modified":"2004-08-28T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2004-08-28T12:25:19","slug":"internet_langua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/08\/28\/internet_langua\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When people talk about Internet language, they usually think about the crippled english from Chats and Emails. But some german words found their way into the internet language. Next to &#8220;\u00fcber&#8221; (as in uberh4X0r) the most common german word in IRC channels is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moin\">&#8220;Moin&#8221;<\/a>. I have seen it in english language IRC channels without people from northern Germany. When I asked if &#8220;moin&#8221; means something in their language, people said they heard it in some other IRC channel and started using it.<br \/>\nThis morning I discovered in the backlog of #bsdaustria x-trem, a true Styrian joining the channel with &#8220;Moinsen&#8221;, an even more colloquial form of Moin, which IIRC came up in the last 15 years.<br \/>\nI queried google groups, and the first use of &#8220;moin&#8221; in Usenet i found was 1988 in comp.sys.atari.st, the first use of &#8220;Moinsen&#8221; in April 1993 in de.soc.studium, the first use in non-german Newsgroups in February 1997 in rec.music.misc.<br \/>\nUnfortunately it is not possible to query for the first usage by an non-german Speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When people talk about Internet language, they usually think about the crippled english from Chats and Emails. But some german words found their way into the internet language. Next to &#8220;\u00fcber&#8221; (as in uberh4X0r) the most common german word in IRC channels is &#8220;&#8220;Moin&#8221;. I have seen it in english language IRC channels without people &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/2004\/08\/28\/internet_langua\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Internet Language&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arved.priv.at\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}