Word: arbeit
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Connotation of Coke. In addition to such new words, there are some 200 oth ers that now have different usages and meanings in each half of the divided country. The standard West German phrases for worker and employer - Arbeiter and Arbeitgeber - are never used in East Germany. There, all workers are now called Werktdtige - work-active persons. The East Germans have also dropped the use of the term Pro- letariat, because intellectuals and white-collar workers felt left out. Rationelle Arbeit, which means rational work in West Germany, has become East Germany's pet euphemism for work per formed...