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were is the important word here. Germany was not an orderly state before 1990. Germany was the last major nation in Europe to be united, and there were...
You bet I don't -- but, alas, I've made the experience that more often than not the whole German-speaking area needs to be referred to. And as far as langauge is concerned, I prefer including the whole of the area, for Austrian and Bavarian belong to the same ("bairisch") group of dialects while Schwyzerduetsch is closely related to South-Western German both in terms of phrasing and pronounciation. So it is pretty difficult to delimit the whole thing along the borders of any of these countries.
Nowadays? *Very* little German is spoken in Poland nowadays, and they'd rather say "guten Tag" if anything; as for the former Soviet Union, most of the German-speaking from were "repatriated" after three to seven generations during the 1980s and 90s -- a once-in-a-lifetime chance for a visa to (realtively wealthy) Germany that many (and nearly all of the younger) people grasped. They, too, would rather say "guten Tag" than anything, not unlike the German-speking in Romania did and do, for -- if we may simplify just a bit -- the "gruess Gott" etc greetings are pretty much limited to the catholic areas in Southern Germany.
Helmut -- All typos © My Knotty Fingers Ltd. Capacity Dept.
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