heatherceana

Dig deep and give me your take on this one.

This is a sample of what the native-speakers of this region consider to be German.

Er frägt mich, ob ich gehe dohin mit ihm.

Er hat gedenkt, dass ich habe einen Kuchen gebackt.

Wir gehen picnicen, weil das Wetter ist nett.

I've honestly had arguments with people here who insist that frägt, gebackt, picnicen and gedenkt are Hochdeutsch. You might want to mind the word order when you translate. Dependent clauses are ALL treated like an independent clause with regards to verb placement by the native-speakers here.

The first proper translation gets the 10 points.

Please, do not give me childish or vulgarly familiar answers.

I'm an Asperger's Syndrome person and am making a valid plea for helpful information. I have picked-up some new pen pals. Most of my others are people I've known since my youth, so they know I'm no good with social formalities. It's accepted as part of who I am.

I want to make a good impression, but want to sound neither too formal nor too vulgarly familiar. I don't know what's in fashion for my age group. I'm 41 years old and they are between 37-50.

Before any igmos get on here making fun of me, please do some research on my condition. There's a reason why a well-educated and highly-intelligent person doesn't understand how "normal" people interact with each other. You might start seeing people around you in a whole new light. ;-)

We need a pronoun that means he and/or she. Granted, we have one, it's called "he." It is supposed to be gender inclusive AND gender exclusive, like the German pronoun "er."

Since this has led to oppression of the female (real or fancied), it would be more convenient to have a separate pronoun that denotes both genders (gender all-inclusive) AND no specific gender (but not a thing (gender-free).

I propose the gender all-inclusive 3rd person plural pronoun: hesh

This will include both male and female. Hesh are people of both genders.

he for he

sh for she

For the gender-free singular or plural pronoun: **** or sheit

A ****, or sheit, is a being whose gender is irrelevant.

sh(e) for she

h(e) for he

it for a lack of gender

1. Do you think these could come into use?

2. What do you think of them for the purposes for which they are proposed (work your way through that one. ::grin::).

3. Have you any sensible propositions (regardless of whether you find mine sensible or not).

Do you think that we, Americans at least, will ever learn to see a person first and foremost? Then only the sex if we are looking to for a mate and the ethnic background or religious affiliation purely for academic study or personal curiosity? I think ridding ourselves of age-bias is simply beyond our capacity at this point in time.

That is my hope. That people will learn to be humans first and most importantly.

I fear it is a doomed hope, especially as long as we keep classifying each other to supposedly make the world a fairer place. Think about the psychological effect of those forms we fill-out where we are forced by our government to classify ourselves? We must pick one category or another, or even write-in our own.

Will we ever over-come these things and see each other first and foremost as a fellow homosapien??

This is a subjective question. Please keep your answers polite and respectful.

a. Questions about the meaning of life.

b. Questions about Hitler and the NSDAP or so-called Nazis.

c. How/why did WWI or WWII start?

d. Questions which read something like, "Help!!! I need HELP!!", but don't give a hint as to what the devil is wrong.

e. Questions regarding what place religion has in politics or our government.

f. Racist questions or questions accusing "whites" of oppressing, repressing, suppress, compressing, and otherwise -pressing some other so-called racial group.

Whether in the North or South, doesn't matter. Have all African-Americans been thoroughly repressed, oppressed, and suppressed up until the last 30-40 years? Were there no business owners, Congressmen, ... no notable figures?

I figure there must have been successful African-Americans, otherwise, the European-Americans wouldn't have worked so hard to try to repress them. I'm thinking about things like the Black Codes and such as repressive measures.

The African peoples and nations have had their golden age as well. Let us list some of the contributions made to the world by these peoples.

Sensible answers only. Please, no racist answers.