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dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote:
It's like a Cockney accent is perfectly acceptable for a kid in London - but when Glasgow kids start using "teef" instead of "teeth" and losing their Rs for Ws, because they watch too much EastEnders, it's not funny anymore. I know what you mean :-) LOL - I don't. Why would kids from Glasgow want to imitate Londoners with Cockney accents? Is it some kind of working-class chic or something? Like over here, when white suburban kids start talking hip-hop lingo to imitate black kids in the cities? Joyce |
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My Dad's parents were Grandma and Grandpa. Grandma was not the nicest
person in the world, to put it politely. When my first baby was due (I'm older than my siblings), my mother decided she and my Dad would be Gammy and Gampy. That's how my kids still refer to them. Joy LOL! That's cute. Keep in mind, I don't have any grandchildren yet. When I do, I'm sure *whatever* they call me I'll consider the most clever and brilliant words ever spoken. Right, Granny Hopitus? Sherry |
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Karen wrote:
"Kreisleriana" wrote in message ... On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 11:15:58 -0600, "Karen" yodeled: Yup. We call our "Mums" "Mom" or sometimes when younger "Mama" (though my siblings and I held on to that one for a long time actually.) "Mother" is generally held for referral use only OR when aggravated by said parent. Karen And Mommy. My brother and I called our mother Mommy when I was little (which is an increasingly long time ago ), and all the children I knew growing up said Mommy. My mother called her mother Mommy when she was little. I know English people say "Mum" or "Mummy," but I never found it irritating. It's what they do. So what? Oh, some things are just like that. I dislike "Ma'am". And I know a lot of women who do and yet people use it all the time. I swear, it makes me feel ancient! Karen You're not the only one, Karen! "Yes ma'am" in the U.S. is considered polite but it makes me feel like someone's grandmother. Granted, I'm almost old enough to *be* someone's grandmother, but point in fact, I'm not. Still, I suppose it's intended to be polite. Jill |
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David Stevenson wrote:
I find it most annoying when little brats in American TV series refer to "My Mom" or say something sick-making like "I love my Mom". What I am curious about is the word 'Mom'. Is that what children actually say? for that matter do they say that yucky word in England nowadays? If anyone wonders what my problem is then I learnt 'Mum' and 'Mummy' and never heard this word 'Mom' until a few years ago. Too bad you haven't been exposed to American English until just a few years ago, David I've called my mother "mom" or "mommy" since I started talking (around 1961) and sometimes "momma". I do understand the term "mum" and "mummy" because my mother's parents were born in the British Isles, but I certainly never thought the different terms were strange or wrong, nor disturbing. Jill |
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"Hopitus2" wrote Hopitus2 does not find it annoying that comprehending the nonstop patter of the Naked Chef, Jamie, who once in a long time refers to his "mum", is very difficult and I only understand every few words, because regardless of his origin, he mumbles as well. Still not annoying; he's charming and innovatively clever! There's some old dude who travels around the world, a Brit, who talks kinda like a famous English news commentator of WWII days; he seeks out unusual recipes and foods. Much easier to understand than Jamie (I think he's of a higher class than Jamie.... Actually, no. Jamie's a good Upper Middle Class boy, extremely well raised - he's just taken to using a ..... "Estuary English" accent because he and his peer group find it more "cred". If the other chef you are referring to is Keith Floyd...... well he started life on the very bottom end of the ladder - he's a Working Class Lad Made Good. So, no, accents tell you nothing about "class" in the UK - ..... -- Jette Goldie Apache and Dakota http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/kitties.html |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 11:33:58 +1100, "Yowie"
wrote: I always thought it was weird to call your granfather, who was always "Grandad" to me, "Pops", and grandmothers, who were I always thought should be called "Nana", a bit off-putting to be called "Gran". When my older daughter had her first child at age 17, it made me a rather youngish grandmother. I told her if I was called "Grandma" I'd wring her neck!! Ah, vanity!! So we settled on "Nana." My other set of grandchildren call me "Omi", their take on the German "Omah." Jeanne |
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JBHajos wrote:
On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 11:33:58 +1100, "Yowie" wrote: I always thought it was weird to call your granfather, who was always "Grandad" to me, "Pops", and grandmothers, who were I always thought should be called "Nana", a bit off-putting to be called "Gran". When my older daughter had her first child at age 17, it made me a rather youngish grandmother. I told her if I was called "Grandma" I'd wring her neck!! Ah, vanity!! So we settled on "Nana." My other set of grandchildren call me "Omi", their take on the German "Omah." Jeanne When my brother and his wife (now separated) had their first (some 14 years ago), they asked our parents what they wanted to be called. My dad opted for the German "Opa" and my mum fancied "famo" (hmmm... the English pronounciation would probably be something like "fahmoo", but with short vowels), which is the abbreviated version of "farmor" = father's mother, in Swedish. I call my parents "Fasch" and "Musch", which are our own versions of the regularly used ones. Just like my brother "invented" the name Mämmy (Mammy, with dots on the a) for our maternal grandmother, and as he was her first grandchild, the name stuck with all the other cousins and even their parents, her children. We seem to have a habit of making up our own names for things and people... -- Christine in Vantaa, Finland christal63 (at) yahoo (dot) com photos: http://photos.yahoo.com/christal63 |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 11:33:58 +1100, "Yowie"
yodeled: "David Stevenson" wrote in message ... Karen wrote Yup. We call our "Mums" "Mom" or sometimes when younger "Mama" (though my siblings and I held on to that one for a long time actually.) "Mother" is generally held for referral use only OR when aggravated by said parent. "Mums" and "Mama" sound fine to me. I always thought it was weird to call your granfather, who was always "Grandad" to me, "Pops", and grandmothers, who were I always thought should be called "Nana", a bit off-putting to be called "Gran". I always suspect that Americans have such colorful names for grandparents simply because people just don't want to be called "Grandma" or "Grandpa" anymore. Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. (Aldous Huxley) |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 09:40:28 GMT, yodeled:
dirtylitterboxofferingstospammers wrote: It's like a Cockney accent is perfectly acceptable for a kid in London - but when Glasgow kids start using "teef" instead of "teeth" and losing their Rs for Ws, because they watch too much EastEnders, it's not funny anymore. I know what you mean :-) LOL - I don't. Why would kids from Glasgow want to imitate Londoners with Cockney accents? Is it some kind of working-class chic or something? Like over here, when white suburban kids start talking hip-hop lingo to imitate black kids in the cities? Joyce Kids imitate anything they see on TV. They don't think too hard about it-- they just think if it's on TV, it's cool. Theresa alt.tv.frasier FAQ: http://www.im-listening.net/FAQ/ Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful. (Aldous Huxley) |
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