Childish words used by adults.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a "yummy" offender from the coffee yogurt thread. Oh OP will you ever forgive me for using such childish terms? I know, I know having a preschooler and toddler doesn't excuse this. How could I?

Lucky you if this is your only real stress. I myself have a parent newly diagnosed with cancer and the whole sanwich generation thing going on among other things so that takes up more of my time than worrying about word choice.

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Yes, it's my current earth shattering concern. That is really the whole point of this--that's it's a nitpick. And hardly important. Like most things on DCUM, and anything that comes out of your mouth, apparently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a "yummy" offender from the coffee yogurt thread. Oh OP will you ever forgive me for using such childish terms? I know, I know having a preschooler and toddler doesn't excuse this. How could I?

Lucky you if this is your only real stress. I myself have a parent newly diagnosed with cancer and the whole sanwich generation thing going on among other things so that takes up more of my time than worrying about word choice.

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Yes, it's my current earth shattering concern. That is really the whole point of this--that's it's a nitpick. And hardly important. Like most things on DCUM, and anything that comes out of your mouth, apparently.

PP just wrote that her parent was diagnosed with cancer and this is your response??? Coldhearted.

[Anonymous]

From Connecticut and I call my DH "Big Daddy".

[Anonymous]

My mommie will always be my mommie. I can't imagine calling her "Mom" or "Mother" or -- what? er first name?

Childish word I hate -- "like". My BIL says "like" like every like other like word.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why? Why people now use "yummy" all the time? I see it constantly on these forums. Really, there are many more appropriate words for the over 8 crowd. Along with "tummy". And "belly". And others of their ilk. When did this become acceptable or fashionable?

Yes, yes, I know there are more important things to worry about out there. I just find it interesting and disconcerting that supposed educated and literate adults need to resort to words that are often used by those toddling around clutching bottles.

Why do a lot of women call their husbands "hubby"? Why do 50-yr olds still call their mother "Mommy or Mummy"? Why do women say "We're pregnant and preggers"?

I could go on but those mentioned annoy me the most.

[Anonymous]

When I hear yummy, veggie, and hubby, I immediately think "BabyCenter material." "Barely literate." "Infantile cutesy girl-woman." "Tennessee."

Now with that out of the way, I'm going to go solve the current starvation problem in Somalia.

Oh, wait, no, I'm not. And neither are you, you person who is aching to post now and point out that there are big problems in this world, so therefore no one should ever post anything that takes issue with something trivial, unless it's a trivial issue that interests me, in which case it's OK.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Belly is not a kid word.

Perhaps. I think it depends on context. "Oooh, my belly is so full" or "I have a belly ache". Childish. THere are other uses that aren't, like a PP who mentioned belly dancing. But I'd say "tummy" is much more egregious.

What's the alternative? Abdomen ache? I almost never get stomach aches. I have a stomach of steel. It's my intestines that bother me, and sometimes my uterus and my ovaries.

Belly is the laymen's term for the general medical "abdomen".

[Anonymous]

Oh please, OP - you sound like a hoot. Don't you have anything else to do but pick others apart? Really? THAT is immature.

[Anonymous]

Yummy in my tummy-tum-tum!

I still say tinkle and potty. And we put our shoes-ies on before we leave the house. Whatever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, I am 41 and still call my 66-year-old father "Daddy." Does that bother you?

Not the OP, but it annoys me. Anyone over the age of maybe 7 or 8 years old that still says "Mommy" and "Daddy" irritates me.

Same with anyone, but especially adults, that call their grandparents me maw and paw paw, or variations of those...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:belly is a childish word?

I guess those of us who use those words still have a bit of kid in us. Nothing wrong with that.

I hate the word belly, and when I hear belly ache from an adult, I cringe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mommie will always be my mommie. I can't imagine calling her "Mom" or "Mother" or -- what? er first name?

Childish word I hate -- "like". My BIL says "like" like every like other like word.

shudder

I'm assuming you're female, however.

So . . . what if a adult male refers to his mother as Mommy?

[Anonymous]

the coffee i am currently ingesting is nummy-nummy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Belly is not a kid word.

Perhaps. I think it depends on context. "Oooh, my belly is so full" or "I have a belly ache". Childish. THere are other uses that aren't, like a PP who mentioned belly dancing. But I'd say "tummy" is much more egregious.

belly dancing is ok to say but tummy tuck is not?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm drinking some yummy coffee w/ baileys right now and it's really warming my belly. This cookie is going to be soooooo yummy, too after I chomp it up and it hits my belly.

OP, are you seriously out of other more pressing things to worry about?

Can you read? That's the second line of the OP--that there are more pressing things to worry about.

Yes, I can read, however OP still has nothing better to nitpick about than what other words people use when they speak and how certain immature words offend her.

LAME.