what does "being moi" mean?

Answer 1

Being me (moi means "me" in French)

Answer 2

Either being yourself (moi = me) or being like Miss Piggy.

Answer 3

It means "being me" or "being myself". Moi is "me" in French.

Answer 4

moi = "me" in french
therefore being me

Answer 5

The phase is in Pigmie English or Pigmie French, depending on your point of origin as a native-speaker of either language, that literally means in either French or English as, "being me", OR, more figuratively and correctly, "being myself" AND one-step shy of fundamentally meaning in either language "me, as an individual, being natural with no pretense or fakery involved".

Here's why the above's best is "one step shy" of fundmentality. --Accurate translation from one language to another is always shot through with cultural images and understandings that are learned as a baby and expanded from there as we grow older AND WHICH CANNOT BE LEARNED AS AN ADULT OR EVEN AS A CHILD OUT OF INFANCY.

The true understanding of a language ALWAYS begins in infancy.

An example is "Fourth of July" which conjures up a entirely different set of cultural understandings and images for a native-born American English-speaker than, say, a Russian who was born in St. Petersburg as a native-speaker of Russian and who later learned English after the age of ,say, two. The Russian can never understand the cultural context of "Fourth of July" in the same sense as the American.

You can examine the science background for this by calling up a web search for "Safir-Whorf Hypothesis" per the two websites I suggest below. (The first discussion I am directing you to is about half way into the depth of the homepage of the first website.)

An example of the impossibility of true translation from one languate to another that has always fascinated me is a translation from an Ancient Egyptian text that describes the initial survey work for laying the foundation of a temple whose god was associated with a particular star that rose on a certain important night at a particular hour during the spring planting time.

It goes something like "... and the cords were stretched when the morning stars sang together...".

Wow! What imagery that conjures up for me and I can do no better than just imagine what that passage actually meant to the surveryors in 2000 BC who were aligning their surveying cords during the night with a "holy" point on their horizon and I fail so utterly to be able to comprehend what their religious thoughts, contexts and emotions were at that moment when the future temple was being aligned to that particular star for what they felt would be for all eternity. What a holy work that wqas to be doing (for them in that moment) and what a full-of holes understanding for our modern age when trying to translate everything that is expressed in that short passage.

And here I end my reply (answer) to your "being moi" question. We, as native-English speakers or even as acquired-French speakers cannot really understand what that means to the person born to the French language if the pigmie phase originates with native-English speakers, and that native-French-speaking person cannot the full meaning of the phase if it originates with a person born to the English language.

(And I really don't understand why the first web address won't activate. Sorry. The second one does fine.)

Answer 6

being me. moi is french for me.

Answer 7

moi meaning me...

get it?

Answer 8

Being me

Answer 9

"Moi" is "me" in French.

Answer 10

It translates to "being me" which I guess means "be yourself."