My ESL MIL refers to my baby's face while cooing as her "O-face" and I just can't

[trendycollections]

@faithinhim777 Pretty sure they’ve been called hummers longer than it was a slang term. I love hummer season.

 

[faithinhim777]

@trendycollections True as that may be, it's not going to stop my sophomoric sense of humor from laughing when she says it.

 

[preciouslv4me]

@trendycollections I too, love hummer season.

 

[searchdaniel]

@faithinhim777 Omg reading this… this is why my husband always says “what’s that again” “I said my hummers are back at the feeder, little piggies!” And then he chuckles.

 

[contemplationmachine]

@faithinhim777 First MIL was also a native English speaker. When texting became a thing, she decided that "come" in any use was best abbreviated, so she'd text us to "cum on over" or asking if we were "cuming" (ffs lady, that's even the same number of letters!) to family events. Had to eventually get the (then) wife to clue her in lol

 

[natebarker87]

@skaterboy1319 lol. My ESL dad used to refer to condominiums and condoms. I let my mom explain that one to him, but for a while I couldn’t not laugh until he had enough time to adjust.

 

[daisy36]

@skaterboy1319 My parents are from India and they call profile pictures on Whatsapp their "display picture". People also pay way more attention to their profile pictures than I think we do in America, and my mom changes hers at least a few times a week to a new picture of my son.

They abbreviate it DP. So my mom gets texts from her friends almost daily saying things like "nice DP! Love it!"

 

[marcin458]

@daisy36 I use it too. Most folks I interact with know what DP is but not the other meaning so can't change my lingo for a very small dirty-minded minority.

But realistically, how many young people who haven't spent hours on pornhub even know what the other DP is?

 

[daisy36]

@marcin458 Most of us? Regardless of how much time any of us actually spent on PornHub, this is the kind of lingo that spread like wildfire when we were stupid in middle school. Most of the "dirty terms" I know, I learned from teenage boys and looked them up on Urban Dictionary rather than learning them firsthand.

 

[katrina2017]

@daisy36 I definitely would not have known what it meant if I didn’t just look it up on urban dictionary.

 

[matheteuo]

@skaterboy1319 My MIL referred to a great photo of her grandchildren as a “moneyshot”

 

[katrina2017]

@matheteuo Lol I think back in the golden era of motion picture, this was used by directors on the "climax" of a movie. Makes sense as to how it was adopted to something else.

 

[kcminneus]

@matheteuo Moneyshot is used on a regular basis across like, all industries. Not everything has to be sexualized.

 

[matheteuo]

@kcminneus All industries?

 

[drd0013]

@kcminneus I’ve heard older folks use it for the intended way, but I have never heard anyone under 40 say it in any other way besides “blowin a load on someone’s face”

 

[fleshisweak]

@matheteuo Joke's on you - it's not necessarily a sexual term at all.

 

[katrina2017]

@fleshisweak Right?! People need to chill.. too much porn lol

 

[katrina2017]

@skaterboy1319 I would consider whether this is just something that will be a funny inside joke or if she risks embarassing herself publicly.

If it's something that she's not going to embarass herself over, I'd let it go and just smirk at your wife when she says it. If she's going to say it in front of teenagers, or someone who won't let it go, give her a heads up now.

 

[johan72]

@skaterboy1319 Laugh about it with your wife (assuming your wife will react well to that) and let her decide whether to tell her mom.

 

[cordie]

@skaterboy1319 One of my closest friends is half-Mexican. Her mom has lived in the States for over forty years now, still has a thick accent, and still stumbles over English phrases every now and then. When my friend had her first baby, she and her husband both asked her to speak Spanish as much as she could around them so the kid could pick it up naturally.

Her mom’s response: “Okay, but we in America and I speak English, twit-nits!” I absolutely love her mom, one of the sweetest and hardest-working women I’ve met, but “twit-nits” just made me laugh so hard….