During and after wwii many ethnic germans were expelled: firsly, afaik from Baltian countries, as a result of Stalin/Hitler agreement (division of Poland, Baltia…) and later also from Poland, Chekhoslovakia.
To describe these people in FRG the word ‘vertriebene’ (expelled) have been used. While in GDR the word was ‘umsiedler’ (resettled).
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pedudal
this is how in Oregon, Portland, people call the car which has only one of the headlights working.
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russian is a very interesting language. they have this “общаться” (intercommunicate), then “общество” (society), which becomes “сообщество” (community) and they also have this word “сообща” - to do something together, verbatim - by communicating with each other.
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