Let me introduce myself...

Crabs McJones · Aug 27, 2018

Hi mom! Welcome to R2R
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Chrisfish · Aug 27, 2018

BestMomEver said:
Lol, I’m @Chrisfish and I always get “hey man or “hey dude” I wish I would have used
“Ms. Chrisfish”

I asked for them to change my user name and they did. They can do it for you...[/QUOTE]
Hmmmm , I kinda like PMing those “ dudes” who assume I’m a guy and give them a hard time

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Crabs McJones · Aug 27, 2018

BestMomEver said:
Please don't take this wrong but... I just love you. You seem like a great guy. Always so friendly and helpful. I'd like to meet you in person one day. And you're Swiss which makes it even better!

Oh yes, lasse is the swiss that is our cheese

BestMomEver · Aug 27, 2018

Crabs Mcjones said:
Oh yes, lasse is the swiss that is our cheese

Or the Swiss that is our chocolate

Todvod · Aug 27, 2018

Welcome “E”!

Lasse · Aug 28, 2018

BestMomEver said:
Please don't take this wrong but... I just love you. You seem like a great guy. Always so friendly and helpful. I'd like to meet you in person one day. And you're Swiss which makes it even better!

You are welcome to my Hometown Gothenburg, SWEDEN

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. Yes last time I check from my window I clearly saw Hissingen , the home island of the Volvo, I check the map and discover two IKEA shops near us, yesterday I passed the house of Hasselblad and my wife do not speak strange german from the bottom of her throat (and not french or italian either) I can´t see any chocolate and I do not even were a clock! But in some or another way I think that you know that

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Sincerely Lasse

Lasse · Aug 28, 2018

Is there any non-gender personal pronoun in English? We did not have it in Swedish when I grow up - but we have it today. It is very useful when you don not know the gender you talking to (at internet as an example), when they do not know their gender by them self, when you do not want to tell the gender of a person and so on. I know the word "guy" that has no gender in American English but not any gender neutral word for he or she. In Swedish we use a mixing of "han" (he) and "hon" (she) - it will of cause be "hen" Not so useful in this context for English talking persons

but very useful in Swedish

I do not know how they do in Swiss German, Italian, French or Romansh (the four official language in Switzerland) because I´m a swede

Sincerely Lasse

Captain Quint · Aug 28, 2018

Greetings and it is wonderful that your children refer to you as BestMomEver which makes for an awesome screen name!

Lasse · Aug 28, 2018

Todvod said:
Welcome “E”!

I did not understand this from the beginning - but I read a little - It is just genius joke

Its the answer to my post above too - I´ll use that from now.

Sincerely Lasse

Ruben's Reef · Aug 28, 2018

!!! Welcome to R2R !!!

BestMomEver · Aug 28, 2018

Lasse said:
Is there any non-gender personal pronoun in English? We did not have it in Swedish when I grow up - but we have it today. It is very useful when you don not know the gender you talking to (at internet as an example), when they do not know their gender by them self, when you do not want to tell the gender of a person and so on. I know the word "guy" that has no gender in American English but not any gender neutral word for he or she. In Swedish we use a mixing of "han" (he) and "hon" (she) - it will of cause be "hen" Not so useful in this context for English talking persons but very useful in Swedish

I do not know how they do in Swiss German, Italian, French or Romansh (the four official language in Switzerland) because I´m a swede

Sincerely Lasse

"Guy" is technically masculine and used that way when speaking to an individual. It's only used as a neutral pronoun when used to talk to a group of people. Something like "Hey guys!" The only other gender neutral pronoun would be "you" if speaking to a person or "it" if you are talking about a thing. But it really doesn't matter to me as long as you know who I am!

BestMomEver · Aug 28, 2018

Crabs Mcjones said:
Hi mom! Welcome to R2R
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OMG! Soooooo true! And it drives me crazy....

Todvod · Aug 28, 2018

Lasse said:
I did not understand this from the beginning - but I read a little - It is just genius joke Its the answer to my post above too - I´ll use that from now.

Sincerely Lasse

L,
Nothing genius. Just her first initial.
T

Lasse · Aug 28, 2018

Todvod said:
L,
Nothing genius. Just her first initial.
T

Yea - but it got genius - just read here

Sincerely Lasse

Lasse · Aug 28, 2018

BestMomEver said:
"Guy" is technically masculine and used that way when speaking to an individual. It's only used as a neutral pronoun when used to talk to a group of people. Something like "Hey guys!" The only other gender neutral pronoun would be "you" if speaking to a person or "it" if you are talking about a thing. But it really doesn't matter to me as long as you know who I am!

Thanks for the explanation. However - I have a problem with all of these nick names when I try to answer a post. You do not want to be rude and fall back in dinosaur thinking (all reefers and unknown fishes are males) With fishes I do not know the gender of - I try to use he/she, him/her and so on. With people its more difficult - it could be good to have a gender neutral word in these cases.

Sincerely Lasse.