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HelpRe: Stacy
in reply to a message by Anya Mel’nik or Mel’nyk
Given that the Stasi and East Germany have not been a thing for 35 years and counting, it's no surprise someone today wouldn't know what Stasi meant, maybe not even in a German-speaking country. And if Stacy is a variation/shortening of Anastasia, Stasi actually sort of makes sense, though it has never caught on in the US even during the period when Stacy and all its variations were popular, the seventies, mainly.
It's also a not-rare last name.
I think Stacy is cute, though a bit flaky and giggly. I like Tracy better. I do have a cousin who I think is around seven now and her name is Stacy. Forget which spelling but I think Stacy is the one.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
It's also a not-rare last name.
I think Stacy is cute, though a bit flaky and giggly. I like Tracy better. I do have a cousin who I think is around seven now and her name is Stacy. Forget which spelling but I think Stacy is the one.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
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I'm pretty sure the Germans are still very aware of their separated time.
We visited my son in Leipzig in 2023 for a very short time; unfortunately we couldn't fit in a visit to a DDR restaurant near his home, which specialises in the kind of food everyone ate, back in the day: stew, mostly, with more veg than meat, and bread puddings. He says the food there is excellent; don't know what that says about the way I brought him up.