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How do you call your mom and dad?
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 Anonymous
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Mama for my mother and Papa for my father
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I call my mom “MA” on most days, and sometimes MOM. As for my father, I use to say DAD, Daddy! My children called me MOM and sometimes MUMSY! |
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I call them Mama and Papa. They wants to be called like that and I am thinking it is because they call their parents as such. In our country, some call them as Inang and Itang. Inang for mother and Itang for Father. Some are Itay and Inay. Some are Daddy and Mommy. Some are Ama and Ina. We have different ways to call our parents in our country and I know there are lots of ways but I do not have knowledge at all. |
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I am close to 50 years old, and I still just call my parents “Mom” and “Dad.” Sometimes I’ll say, “Daddy” instead, depending how I feel at the time. My kids call us the same ways, though I always preferred “Mama” to “Mommy.” My oldest says “Mama,” but the rest of the kids say “Mom” or “Mommy.” |
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@aka135 oh you are a ipoh mom. I heard ipoh ladies are fair, pretty and smart. You proved to be one ! |
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so cute, mumsy is a pamper way to call mom. I like that. My kids sometimes call me “Maggie Mee” I am willing to cook maggie mee for them when they requested |
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I see that there are still families who practice speaking Mandarin as the mother tongue. My family speaks English because my parents are English educated. Hence, we are Chinese illiterate. |
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Anonymous
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@peachpurple I don’t understand, to whom you refer – my parents or my family? My kid as I said uses normal terms, no mommy or daddy, maybe rarely.
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@ruby3881 If not calling parents “Mom” and “Dad”, usually how others call the parents? I always wonder how you call the elder brother or sister in English, do you call them by name as well? @peachpurple That’s not true for Ipoh ladies. I do not know where the rumor came from, though I have heard about it when I came to KL and studied. 😀 Sometimes my kids just created some names for me – mommy ma, ma ji ma, etc. They just simply made it up themselves. |
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is your mom or dad Mandarin spoken in his/her family? Like my family, my parents are english spoken, so I don’t speak Mandarin at all until I started to work. I admire those family who speaks Chinese dialect. This helps the kids to embrace Chinese dialect to the next generations. My nieces and nephews plus my kids do not speak dialects, all are Mandarin spoken. Hence, it is a waste that our Hokkien dialect would cease here. But , isn’t it cute when we speak Mandarin with additional dialects? Our so called Rojak Mandarin
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i call my Mom Ammi and Dad Abbu :)) |
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@peachpurple My mom speaks Cantonese in her home, and my dad spoke another Chinese dialect (similar to Hakka), but when they met each other, they spoke in Mandarin. I guess that’s why we spoke Mandarin since we were young. Both of them are Chinese educated and so we are.
I can’t speak my own Chinese dialect as well, we only speak Mandarin at home. I know Cantonese, because most Ipoh people speak Cantonese. As for Hokkien, there are actually still many people who speak Hokkien, such as the northern part and also Klang. These are all Hokkien speaking areas, so most people know how to speak even though they are not Hokkien. We might be able to learn a bit here and there, I guess just like how you learned Mandarin at work. I agree that it’d be good to know some Chinese dialects, especially our own mother tongue and also those commonly used ones. Perhaps we can start learning them online now. 😀
@amna83 That’s interesting to know. May I know where you are from and what language is that to call Ammi and Abbu? |
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@Lee Ka i am from Pakistan and the language is URDU Ammi for MOM and Abbu for DAD 🙂 |
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