What Should I Call "You"? Part 3: Using Family Roles/Social Roles
The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language
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Do Your Kids Ever Call You?
My daughter and thend son calls me mummy. I don't alwa, sa ya, what are it? What are they calling you? Is it your name, or is it your a family role? Ya, because my husband calls me mummy, too. And then everybodyis just calling me mummy, and i don't know what they are thinking. When i, well, when i talkt mammy, you mammy. But if i, like, back before the pandemic, like on a zoom call with you ina cammy shop or something, i always had to say mammy on so bright it was like zuming with my mam mammy. That scary
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