Still not getting what one should say instead. "Offspring Unit B, I distinctly recall that Spousal Unit One directed you to empty the waste receptacles."
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 00:27 (three years ago) link
Yeah, my mom would say, "Well, what do you want me to call him?" And admittedly I didn't have a good answer. Yet, it still seemed so impersonal
― Thicc Nhat Wanh (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 00:39 (three years ago) link
"Son, I hear from the Hubster that you're not doing your homework."
Is that better?
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 00:55 (three years ago) link
"the wife" iirc
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 01:05 (three years ago) link
sometimes when i'm speaking to my little brother i will tactically employ the "your mother" usage just to get under his skin
"you know man, your mother was really disappointed with how you behaved at thanksgiving last year. did you really need to have that much wine ?"
then we beat the shit out of each other
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link
Shenanigans
People on social media talking about what kind of "shenanigans they got into this weekend!" Wow, you drank outside.
― p.j.b. (pj), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 01:21 (three years ago) link
xp do you burn each other w "your mother" jokes
― singular wolf erotica producer (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 01:22 (three years ago) link
no just matchbooks and fireworks like normal people
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 01:26 (three years ago) link
My personal least favorite is when my dad refers to my mom (when talking w me) as “your mother”They’re still married!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, August 10, 2020 8:08 PM bookmarkflaglink
better than him saying "my mother"
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 02:33 (three years ago) link
My mom always makes of light of that turn of phrase by saying 'your own personal father' (except in Romanian) instead so it's amusing to me.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 02:57 (three years ago) link
your ownpersonalfather
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 03:06 (three years ago) link
someone who shares your namesomeone to blame
― budo jeru, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 03:13 (three years ago) link
when my mum said "your father" it meant she was cross with him or passing on an opinion or request she disapproved of
― mark s, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 10:15 (three years ago) link
See also: yer da
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 10:19 (three years ago) link
Wow, you drank outside.
You exhibitionist!
― Basil Ker-ching (Noel Emits), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 10:25 (three years ago) link
Apparently it's odd that me and my brothers say "my dad" rather than just "Dad" when discussing our dad.
Like I will say to my older brother who has the same dad as me "If we're going ahead I'll invite my dad."
I don't know how it came about and we didn't know it was odd until other people told us.
― オニモ (onimo), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 13:36 (three years ago) link
“Your own personal father” sounds light hearted and amusing. “Your mother” to an only child (me) always sounded mildly hostile and passive aggressive. I think it’s in the way it was employed. What’s wrong with “mom”? If I had kids I would not tolerate being referred to as “your mother”
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 13:38 (three years ago) link
(xp) Yes, we do that too, maybe it's a West of Scotland thing?
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 13:40 (three years ago) link
LL that seems backwards to me.
I can get how it could sound hostile depending on tone but the alternative - calling my wife 'Mum' - sounds all kinds of weird to my ears and is something that only happens in old English sitcoms.
― オニモ (onimo), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 13:51 (three years ago) link
i find myself calling my wife 'maman' when i talk to my kids because that's what they call her. it's like her name. kinda weird from the outside maybe.
i call my own dad 'jim', but 'my dad' when talking to people outside my family.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 13:53 (three years ago) link
I'm not averse to 'your mother' but could not that weird to use your wife's actual name in these situations.
I remember my mum objecting to my dad referring to her as Mum when we were growing up.
― Alba, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 13:55 (three years ago) link
but could not = but also not
― Alba, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 13:56 (three years ago) link
Saying either "mum" or "your mother" to the kids is fine by me, it's using it to address her directly that's weird, but i do it anyway - like "let's see what your mum says - mum!". the alternative - "let's see what your mum says - helen!" seems jarring, also i don't want to get into the habit of first names around the kids. i've called my parents by their first names since i was fairly young and they've said they did miss being called mum and dad.
― neith moon (ledge), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:07 (three years ago) link
I know we covered this upthread, but the explosion in the use of "concerning" when users mean "worrying" is bugging the shit out of me. "Concerning" to my ears is a synonym for "about."
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:08 (three years ago) link
Yer auld da', that'll do the trick.
― Young Boys of Bernie (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link
La Lechera, is your problem really with the full, more formal word "mother" (vs. the informal short form "mom") and not with "your"? Or with both together?
Anyway when I'm talking to my children, if I say "Mom" or "Mother" to mean my wife, that's confusing and odd to me. Because my wife most definitely isn't MY mother or mom. I don't call her Mom when we're talking to each other (ick).
"Mom's at the grocery store" = ambiguous. Could mean two different people.
"Your mom's at the grocery store" = unambiguous. Clearly means exactly one person.
"My mom's at the grocery store" = unambiguous. Clearly means exactly one person.
(FWIW I love my mother very much, we have a good relationship. But I've always called her "mother" and it doesn't sound remotely cold or fussy to me, because it's what I'm used to. One of my sisters calls her "Mom" or "Mommy" only when she wants something, so to my ears it sounds a little cloying. But that's just me.)
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:10 (three years ago) link
Alfred how about " consternatin' "
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:12 (three years ago) link
That's why you say 'grandma' when talking about your own mom in front of the kids.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:16 (three years ago) link
To make matters even more confusing, sometimes my mom calls me mom (mami) and my dad calls me dad (tati). This is standard in Romanian.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:18 (three years ago) link
That's just relocating the same problem! My grandma is not at the store. Their grandma is at the store. So I would say "your grandma."
This is not complicated.
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:31 (three years ago) link
Just give everyone nicknames. Problem solved.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:32 (three years ago) link
Just dissolve the nuclear family.
― jmm, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:34 (three years ago) link
xpost Jookie's at the store, and Bizzle is at the doctor
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:37 (three years ago) link
Nuclear family is good not bad imo. One for the controps thread?
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:39 (three years ago) link
Just a joke. I love my family.
― jmm, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:40 (three years ago) link
Think this is a West of Scotland thing, yeah. My extended family all use it - even to the extent of exchanges like Cousin: "Should I bring my gran when I come over?" Me: "what your gran or my gran my-gran?"
My sister always objects. "She's MY GRAN TOO"
― stet, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
in California people refer to their parents as the mom or dad, much like they do highways and interstates
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:47 (three years ago) link
Students whose first language in Spanish will often write "my grandma" and "my mom" repeatedly in papers. For variety's sake, I'll ask, "What do you call them?" If they say "Mami" or "Abuelita" or whatever I urge them to use that nickname after the first reference.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
Not as bad as 'the wife' but it's up there.
xp
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:49 (three years ago) link
people from the Houston area, however, refer to the children of their aunts and uncles as "feeder siblings"
― avellano medio inglés (f. hazel), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 14:52 (three years ago) link
None of these are bad.What's bad is when you're so used to referring to your wife as 'mummy' around the kids, and not at all used to having your own mother visit and similarly not used to calling her 'Granny', that you intend to call your own mother 'Mum' or 'Granny' but keep saying 'mummy' when you're a grown man.
― kinder, Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:39 (three years ago) link
Your school bus is almost here = informative and normal
Your backpack is in the car = informative and normal
Your lunch is on the table = informative and normal
Your dance class is at 3:00 = informative and normal
Your guinea pig needs to be fed = informative and normal
Your mom is at the grocery store = hostile and passive-aggressive
Got it.
― vitreous humorist (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:46 (three years ago) link
Yo momma.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
is soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
― popeye's arse (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 15:58 (three years ago) link
If dads can't deal with/feel weird or uncomfortable referring to their children's mother as "mom" ***when talking with their children**** the problem is more complex than we are giving it credit for here
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
to the kids, it is her name -- she IS momi appreciate you acknowledging thatto me "your mother" sounds very cold
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
it sounds cold because it is cold! it's saying she's YOUR mother but she is MY WIFE
it's all related
(Borat voice) MY WIFE
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:16 (three years ago) link
My dad has never been especially progressive (although generally more so than the average Romanian man of his generation) and he calls my mom 'mom' all the time when talking with me. Might also be a cultural thing, idk.
― stabbing fantaisiste, repellent imagiste (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:18 (three years ago) link
my sister loves referring to “your mother” when she talks to me about our mom, it’s like it somehow confers her power over me, or over her, or both. i loathe it obv
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
exactly!!! it's a power move and to have that come from my dad? to me? about my mom? YUCK
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 11 August 2020 20:25 (three years ago) link