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On the 9th of November 1989, the demolition of the Berlin Wall began. With an a year Germany was unified.

Germany, the DDR or GDR, dissolved and was incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany, took on its currency and its rules and its lexicon.

Both Western East Germany had already been speaking German, of course, but there were differences from the years of very concerted separation.

The attempts at isolating East Germany from what was considered Western culture and capitalism, and the specifically East German concepts that had their own vocabulary.

It's curious about what happened to East German language after the wall came down, on with the show.

There's some words that still exist. There are some expressions you could still tell that the people come from the East or the West, for example.

The Western part, they say plastic and in the Eastern part, I would say they say plaster because there was a company in the East that produced plastics and that was called a plaster and a luster.

Because of that, all the people would call plastics plaster. You could still tell today if someone says plaster instead of plastic that this person is probably from the Eastern part.

I remember going to school with a plastic bag being sent home because it was a West German bag.

These were very precious items. You would keep a plaster for months and reuse it and reuse it until it was just tattled.

It was a precious object.

For example, my son, when he tries to identify if someone's coming from a West or East German family, he asks them how they call the thing where you put all your bathroom items into his cord.

So, East Germans say, ''Vashtashe'' and West Germans say ''Kulturboital'' and that's sort of the ultimate identifier whether you come from a West or East German family.

I wonder how it is like when you're in a mixed family.

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