Don�t forget "Berg Heil!" - among mountaineers
(when encountering each other in the mountains)

--- Tim Peters <timemaster-tim@...> wrote:

> like "Waidmanns
> Heil!" among hunters and "Petri Heil!" among
> fishermen, meant to wish
> someone luck in the hunt. But on its own,
> "Heil" might well cause
> some aggravation if said to a German.

I don�t really understand an American applying
German aggravation to Icelandic, however.

Why, for instance, should an American say on a
foggy morning "Oh, I won�t say it�s �mist�
because that�s impolite in German".



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Kindest Regards,
- DeepStream
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