Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an invisible border running through Germany continues to resist all efforts to make the country truly whole again. However, this dividing line is not about attitudes to democracy, refugees or Russia, but something more elementary: how to tell the time.
As a Northern German who is now living in Bavaria I had to learn a lot of culinary vocabulary when I first came to the South. (And some of those 'new' words sound really funny to my northern ears.) So it's not only a phenomenon of the iron curtain.
Shut up about things you don't understand at all
So what’s the problem?! Most countries have regional dialects with their own words! So why shouldn’t the East Germans have theirs, it’s part of their identity, so why give it up?! Isn’t it all about diversity nowadays? What’s the problem of having a different word for meatball?
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