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dancinglights brought up the term "lady" and its uses, and I made a remark myself in a comment to someone else about how I thought maybe people just used my name rather than a generic term if they needed to refer to me, but it actually does make me curious what word or words other people might use for me. Out of the following choices I think I would mostly use "girl" for myself (although as mentioned, I think I may be growing out of it). You?[Poll #981789]
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Date: May. 10th, 2007 03:24 am (UTC)From:I feel like 'gal' is a word that comes out of the mouths of guys with handlebar moustaches. I can't remember the last time I used it.
'Lass' is what guys in utilikilts call girls they want to impress. Way too pretentious and pseudo-archaic for me.
'Lady', well maybe but only if I was being sarcastic for some reason. 'Chick' also, occasionally pops out of my mouth when I'm on a ramble or not paying terribly much attention.
'Other' in your case was something like a string of adjectives and nouns stuck together when it didn't seem like one of them was doing the job by itself or I didn't know which one was proper. Something like "you know that tass person, the faerie otherkin elf girl thing from lj?". :)
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Date: May. 10th, 2007 07:58 pm (UTC)From:*giggles* I can see that. (That said, my co-worker Alicia often uses "gal" as a general term for people of about my age, but her first language is not English, so she often has trouble with the subtle nuances of various English words, and tends to latch onto a phrase or word and use it repeatedly for all kinds of situations even when it might not really be applicable in my native-speaker way of thinking.)
"Lass' is what guys in utilikilts call girls they want to impress."
LOL!
Something like "you know that tass person, the faerie otherkin elf girl thing from lj?". :)
Heheh! But see, you used "person" there, which was the type of answer I was after. I use "person" a lot myself.