Thank you for the welcome . I am confused by your female PhD statement . I believe the only stereotype that you are challenging is the one in your head . To me , a PhD represents a limited scope of knowledge in a particular field . From my experience , these titles often times infer the opposite of their intended use . <| sep |> This makes me smile DHe ' s so cute ! <| sep |> I have a friend who , out of four , only has one straight sibling . I have a coworker whose brother is gay and sister is a lesbian . Not sure if his husband has similar stuff on his side of the family . So yeah , it happens <| sep |> Same in the Rheinland , et Trude and Dat Tildche are pretty normal constructions in colloquial language . Its usage is reducing though , as people only use that construction in dialect and not when they speak normal german .