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<span style="color: black;">From: <span>Luc
Hellinckx <<a href="mailto:luc.hellinckx@gmail.com">luc.hellinckx@gmail.com</a>><br>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2009.01.25 (05) [E]</span></span></span></p>
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Beste Ron,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">You wrote:</span></p>
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<p style="margin-left: 40px; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><span style="word-spacing: 0px;">I did once walk around off the beaten track in purely
residential areas. I could tell that people recognized me as being from the
West and were avoiding me, and there was the distinct possibility that I was
being followed.</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"></span></span></p>
<p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"><br></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; color: black;">
<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">I don't know what would have happened had the Internet been up and running as
it is now. At the time, simply communicating with outsiders was most definitely
not advisable, certainly not under a regime that arrested people for merely
waving across the border. Even just sending a letter from private home to
private home without family relationship could be dangerous, especially a
letter to West Germany. It was only in the waning few years that one of my East
German nieces started sending me letters to </span>Australia<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">. She would have been more
careful had I still lived in </span>West
Germany<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">, because young people were not
exactly encouraged seek contacts with their Western relatives. I believe it was
during those years that Hanne, meanwhile having reached pension age, began communicating
with and visiting the West.</span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Thanks for
your answer. I was asking this because I once heard that in the few years prior
to the reunification, there was quite a lot of "tourism" going on
between many Warsaw Pact countries and Hungary for example. For business,
for trade, for fun, for sheer tourism (or a mixture), I can't tell, but I
remember seeing a documentary in which hordes of Trabants were crossing the
Carpathians in order to visit Budapest.
Guess most of them may have been Polish, but maybe some were Eastern German or
Czech too.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Kind
greetings,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;">Luc
Hellinckx</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
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