Post Ac6ZTclkf3S9HMkEqW by desertgoalie@mastodon.social
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(DIR) Post #Ac6Qt9DwEXetaU1aHw by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-11-23T15:52:01Z
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Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!If you're getting together with family, it's a great time to talk about your familects — the words your family and only your family uses — and where the came from.
(DIR) Post #Ac6R9KuqWwwiU0oVv6 by ronsboy67@mas.to
2023-11-23T15:54:58Z
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@grammargirl Does this count? My siblings and all our paternal cousins all call our shared grandfather Father (you can hear the capitalisation too), as his children did. It understanbaly confuses anyone not in the family that if anyone of us says "Father", we are not talking out our Dad.
(DIR) Post #Ac6RGG7mk7CTeNAP9E by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-11-23T15:56:14Z
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@ronsboy67 It's not the kind of thing I think of when I think about familects, but it probably does qualify. It would be interesting to know how it came about!
(DIR) Post #Ac6SIJfQdsbvAeRqOu by ronsboy67@mas.to
2023-11-23T16:07:49Z
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@grammargirl No great mystery there. His kids saw him for a couple of weeks of the year, they had to call him Father, and since we all only ever heard him referred to that way, it became his designation for all of us. It may have helped that there was nothing remotely 'grand' about him 😆
(DIR) Post #Ac6Ss1dBB6KbeoQJH6 by petes_bread_eqn_xls@mastodo.neoliber.al
2023-11-23T16:14:16Z
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@grammargirl instead of “this, that, and the other” my grandmother always says “lot, dot, and dotta” and I have no idea where that came from
(DIR) Post #Ac6T2NB1vRHPNQBtWy by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-11-23T16:16:09Z
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@petes_bread_eqn_xls How fun!
(DIR) Post #Ac6U3UWcBsa8PVNsw4 by cherylwriting@mastodonapp.uk
2023-11-23T16:27:31Z
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@grammargirl I never realized there was a name for that.:forehead-slap: Of course there's a name for everything :)
(DIR) Post #Ac6ZTclkf3S9HMkEqW by desertgoalie@mastodon.social
2023-11-23T17:28:14Z
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@grammargirl My 8yo daughter is the source of a lot of our familect. I really should put a list together. This'll be fun!
(DIR) Post #Ac6Zo3YmlMuWA3QH2W by grammargirl@zirk.us
2023-11-23T17:32:00Z
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@desertgoalie Absolutely!
(DIR) Post #Ac7Qrlq1tDM5vW91wO by dxzdb@mastodon.social
2023-11-24T03:26:31Z
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@grammargirl This concept was borrowed from the TV Series Red Dwarf, but our family calls these vegan turk’y rolls ‘space weevils’. 🤣