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Guilty of calling my husband hubby in the forum. Elsewhere, I would never. But he wouldn't like it if I used his real name here, so it's just a shortcut, especially when I'm typing on my phone.
I have no problem with what I’m called. MrsT calls me hubby, hubs, the hubs, the hubby, the husband, my husband, and a few other things I can’t print here, and I use the reciprocal names for her (though I don’t call her wifey nearly as much as she calls me hubby).
People who refer to themselves in the 3rd person are very strange.
My neighbor does that. It’s annoying.
My neighbor does that. It’s annoying.
Continuing the nomenclature theme, I do get the heebie-jeebies a little when parental couples refer to themselves as Mom/Mommy and Dad/Daddy. I get that it springs from not confusing toddlers as they’re learning to speak, but it still creeps me out.
My maternal grandparents did it, my in-laws did it, my brother did it (and still does when he talks about her, even though they’ve been divorced for years), and I think the Reagans famously did it, and was considered somewhat endearing, but it’s always a little unsettling to me.
I have referred to my husband as "dad" before when speaking to the kids instead of saying "your dad", but never have I ever addressed him as "dad" or referred to him as that to anyone else.
Yeah, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. It always creeps me out.
Because I had to write reports when completing business evaluations, I'm ultra careful. I think in terms of male and female for the most part. It's unacceptable to write woman, lady, gentlemen, etc. in a report.
I posted that I write that way (and I think that way when writing a report, obviously). I really don't talk much about other people anymore because I don't go anywhere, but I think I might have said, "That person over there" or "those people over there", something like that. That's pretty safe. Actually, there have been times on reports where I wasn't able to tell the gender of the person from their appearance, but if they were wearing a name tag I could sometimes tell what their pronoun preference was (Victoria would likely prefer being referred to as "she"). At any rate, the clients wanted us to be completely generic, and refrain from descriptors such as race or build as well.That is actually PC. Male and female became big in the PC eighties, and stuck in the business world. Saying "male and female" instead of "man and woman" sounds like you are talking about pets or wildlife. My mother is a woman. I wouldn't think of referring to her as a "female." My dog is a male.
BTW, I use the word "gentleman/gentlemen" regularly. I never considered the term "lady/ladies" to be disrespectful. Looks like I'm all wrong again.
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