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princessnijireiki · 3 months ago

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A few of these are weird, but I'm wondering where y'all live that a few of these screenshots even... merited inclusion in a list like this?

Like I've heard "yaya" before, just like I've heard "oma"/"uma" (I'm assuming that's the source of "oompa" in the first screencap), "bubbe," etc. They're not weird, they're just not English. Even the person who called their grandpa "booboo" instead of abuelo, I know a very young kid right now who differentiates his grandmothers by calling one "abu" and one "tita," both short for abuelita.

"Grandpa Gungus" and "Goochpa" are objectively funny, but I need y'all to expand your horizons a little bit if you think "Bubu" or "Gigi" and "Sloppy :D" are in the same category.

THIS IS KILLING ME

#no offense to op but truly like... damn are all the white people you've ever encountered before in like purely wasps or what??#I'm not even white but I'm like hey... ntm on yaya & bubu now #thought i was gonna open up the post & laugh but half of these are just regular #anyway my fam did the typical black southern thing of addressing older grown ups by their title/relationship to you + name #grandpa x or grandma y or aunt abc #and my mom was not keen on reinforcing babytalk from a developmental standpoint so there were words that were hard and then they got easier #but she wasn't like ''oh lol that's your grandpa's name now'' she was like ''yeah that's the only way you could pronounce it for a while''#but I understand the emotional fondness people could have that would lead to an attachment to a baby name yk?#anyway ik I'm overthinking it #but I think y'all are being kind of mean & showing some unacknowledged ethnic & regional biases in policing dialect & language here #in a way that's kind of unbecoming :/ esp in the current sociopolitical climate #when there are pleeeeennnnty of actual weirdola examples you could be choosing from instead!!!!#the real dweezils and moon units of grandparent names are out there but ''bubu'' is on the list instead. wack

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