Pomai
October 21st, 2005, 04:28 PM
This was a fun and interesting discussion we had over lunch today.
There's a time and place for everything, including the use of names and nicknames you use for your girlfriend, boyfriend, husband or wife. In private, a wife may call her husband "honey", "babe", "snookie" or "muffin cakes". Yet in public she'll call him by his first name, "Mike". If the kids are around, she may call him "daddy" or "papa".
Same thing applies towards children. In the privacy of home, parents may call their children "keedz" or "hurricanes". But in public they'll simply call them by their first names, "Mikey" and "Sally".
Cultural background usually plays a large part in how titles are used as well. Filipinos commonly refer to their father as "tatay" and grandmother as "lola". Japanese refer their mother as "okaasan" and grandfather as "ojiisan". Yet some families will even abbreviate or modify those terms. Like in Tagalog they'll say "La" instead of Lola, or locals will say "JiiJii" instead of Ojiisan.
What name/nickname do you address your significant other and/or family members in public and/or private?
*If refering to actual proper names, for the sake of privacy you can just say "First Name/nickname" or "Last Name". Also, keep the lovers' "nicknames" rated "G".
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Me and my siblings refered to our late grandmother (mother's side) as "Mama". Late grandmother (father's side) as "Granny". Mom is "mom". Dad is "dad". My nieces and nephews all refer to my mother as "Tutu".
Girlfriend and I refer to each other as "hon" (short for "honey"). But if we're around family or in public, out of respect we call each other on a "First Name" basis.
There's a time and place for everything, including the use of names and nicknames you use for your girlfriend, boyfriend, husband or wife. In private, a wife may call her husband "honey", "babe", "snookie" or "muffin cakes". Yet in public she'll call him by his first name, "Mike". If the kids are around, she may call him "daddy" or "papa".
Same thing applies towards children. In the privacy of home, parents may call their children "keedz" or "hurricanes". But in public they'll simply call them by their first names, "Mikey" and "Sally".
Cultural background usually plays a large part in how titles are used as well. Filipinos commonly refer to their father as "tatay" and grandmother as "lola". Japanese refer their mother as "okaasan" and grandfather as "ojiisan". Yet some families will even abbreviate or modify those terms. Like in Tagalog they'll say "La" instead of Lola, or locals will say "JiiJii" instead of Ojiisan.
What name/nickname do you address your significant other and/or family members in public and/or private?
*If refering to actual proper names, for the sake of privacy you can just say "First Name/nickname" or "Last Name". Also, keep the lovers' "nicknames" rated "G".
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Me and my siblings refered to our late grandmother (mother's side) as "Mama". Late grandmother (father's side) as "Granny". Mom is "mom". Dad is "dad". My nieces and nephews all refer to my mother as "Tutu".
Girlfriend and I refer to each other as "hon" (short for "honey"). But if we're around family or in public, out of respect we call each other on a "First Name" basis.