Thread: Tell me what do you call your parents?

Originally Posted by JET73L

note: I have no accent of my own. I spoke with near-complete monotony as a child, and only developed my current system of using different accents based on my current mood or language as I began to watch television more, and read more and more manga and books by british authors (most notably, Discworld and H2G2)

lol, i get yelled at when i do this. my ma thinks that i should speak the way the people from my area speak.i tend to take on other cultural accents except my own for some odd reason...

Mom & Dad for me. Maybe when I was way little it was something else, but not in a long time.

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

I guess the relationship i have with my parents isn't exactly what you'd call close.

Oh, I see. Ok, well that makes a little more sense. Sorry.

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

The whole title thing sickens me, no offence.

Might as well address people by their actual names.

And I do understand the idea that people should just call people by their names. Well, I understand someone not being close to their parents and feeling that way anyway.

Originally Posted by Lucid Seeker

The whole title thing sickens me, no offence.

Might aswell address people by their actual names.

Names are titles!

Names are titles to identify the person. "mom" and Dad" ("mother" and "father," "mummy" and "poppy," "mater" and "pater," "madre" y "padre") are titles meant to identify the adressee's station, as compared to the speaker. In this case, the title is subject specific, and the subjects (1st-generation descendants) address the parent by title, while others are not only not required to do so, but also strongly suggested to use a different title, or a name, depending on social rank and familiarity.

Personally, I don;t much like the heirqarchy this imposes, though it's traditional, and I was going to say something about identification, but forgot. It makes sense, so I;m not going to try and undermine the system, though it would also be useful in the case of lost children if parents would teach their kids their real names, and not just their titles.

I've never spoken to my father, so if I refer to him, it's "my father." My Mom is Mom now, but until I was fourteen it was only Mother in all situations, I think because when I was very young everyone in the house called my grandmother "Mom," so she was Mom and my mother was Mother.

Originally Posted by JET73L

Names are titles to identify the person. "mom" and Dad" ("mother" and "father," "mummy" and "poppy," "mater" and "pater," "madre" y "padre") are titles meant to identify the adressee's station, as compared to the speaker. In this case, the title is subject specific, and the subjects (1st-generation descendants) address the parent by title, while others are not only not required to do so, but also strongly suggested to use a different title, or a name, depending on social rank and familiarity.

Personally, I don;t much like the heirqarchy this imposes, though it's traditional, and I was going to say something about identification, but forgot. It makes sense, so I;m not going to try and undermine the system, though it would also be useful in the case of lost children if parents would teach their kids their real names, and not just their titles.

Oh...I got pwned..