I know it’s popular (thus why I’m posting here) but it’s the ultimate in cringe. There are words that exist with identical meanings (kid, wife, husband) why are we inventing new and often LONGER ones that mean the same thing? It’s not cute, it makes the user seem silly.
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You are using “cringe” as a noun. You don’t get to speak on immature language use.
I personally like to refer to my children as little “shitlings”
we give cute things cute names 😁
Dude, I love calling my daughter kiddo, she loves it too, that’s all you need to know
Okey dokey, Snow Queenie Bambeanie!
The only one out of this list that bothers me is “littles”. Something about it rubs me the wrong way, I just cannot stand it. Like nails on a chalkboard when I hear it.
Language evolves and there will always be slang. I find the words ‘cringe” and “cringey” to be cringe worthy, but have found myself using them. Your post is kind of cringey
Man, u sound so unhappy
People who criticize these granular little things have way too much time on their hands
Add doggo to your list and I’ll be unpopular with you.
“Littles” is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Just call them kids.
When I married my ex-wife, her little brother was only 12. He and I got along well, and I always called him “kiddo”. I stopped once he got to age 17 or 18. Long after the divorce, he and I stayed friends, and when he was an adult he told me he loved when I called him that as a kid.
Life’s not always serious, sometimes a little bit of silly is the goal
To me, they don’t seem immature, but incredibly cringey
It’s like when women call each other “mama”.
“Hey MAMAS my LITTLE has a fever of 105 and will only take the Tylenol with Red 40 in it what should I do mamas?!?”
Hubby/wifey has never settled properly with me. I always get that weird ick feeling whenever anyone uses it.
It almost sounds like you think being silly were a bad thing, but that’d be silly.
Today you discovered diminutives!
I agree, i would like to add on “doggo”, “pupper” and “lil guy”. They all annoy me quite a lot
Counterpoint, you just seem to hate whimsy
Being so concerned with appearing grown-up that it causes you to form such laughable judgements of others is the truest cringe. Don’t let the world totally snuff out your flame.
I know what this sub is but people need to lighten the fuck up a little. Everything feels like a thinly veiled attempt to position the speaker above others socially. There are other types of opinions.
Okay ms snow queen💅😂
You’re bitching about people using “cutesy” words, but then you call it “cringe”? Glass houses, friendo.
The constant whining on here and pet peeves about people using diminutives/slang/pet names is just so baffling. Nobody is going to make you call your hypothetical children “kiddos,” but being a stick in the mud about other people using language just makes you seem like a judgy killjoy. Oh no, other people are being cute with each other! God forbid.
I can understand not wanting to be called by a or any pet name as that is controlling your own narrative, but being invested in what other people do to the point you feel you need to shame them for not behaving as you wish is infantile.
Have my upvote.
Ok kiddo
Not my circus, not my monkey.
It’s supposed to be immature. Saying wifey feels less cold and professional than just wife. Sometimes, you don’t want to talk about your wife in a cold and professional way.
Cummies is the worst one. You are a damn 45 year old, you don’t need to call it that
If we cant be silly and have a bit of fun in life, what’s the point?
Rather be silly than serious all the time. Words are constantly being created daily for decades. I used to hate the word “welp” but it wasn’t going away since people had fun saying it, so i accepted it and got over it since it’s not a big deal. People have fun saying those words, and life is tough, so why not let others have fun saying words that bring them joy?
I feel this way about words like tummy, potty, and undies. Fine when you are or are talking to a toddler. Not for adults.
I think that, across a lot of categories, women today just do anything they can to give the impression they are whimsical and lightheared.
This is just one pf those categories.
I hate it all so much
Man yall mofos need to accept that tone is a key part of communication. “Oh perfect so the kiddos can get some exercise too” sounds a lot more friendly than “That will allow the children to exhaust their energy reserves.”
“Me and the wife enjoyed our weekend” is a fucking business email. “Me and wifey fkd off to the lake this weekend” is far more friendly and keeps the conversation light. No one thinks your refusal to use pet words makes you seem more mature, it makes you come off stiff if it affects their view of you at all.
“Preggers” makes me want to defenestrate myself.
Breaking: childish words make people sound childish
For the same reason absolutely HATE the grey and beige borification of Nickelodeon headquarters and McDonald’s restaurants, I hope people keep using cutsie names and whatever else they want. What a boring, homogenized experience it would be.
I find it very weird that you’re judging other peoples’ casual language while yourself using the term “cringe” in the modern slangy sense. Other people can’t use fun silly terms that they like but you can? Others are childish for those terms but your use of youth slang isn’t childish?
I don’t put “kiddo” in the same category as the others mentioned, it’s been used for 100 years plus. The others though, completely agree.
“littles” grinds my fuckin gears every time I see it
I despise these words, same with vacay, doggo, pupper, etc. Talk like an adult if you are one
Ok “Snow Queen”
Specifically Wifey and Hubby always bothered me even when I was a teen. It just sounds…. Odd lmao
Kinda agree to be honest, as well as the way of seemingly infantilising things that can be sexual too – panties, booty, tiddies etc are all awful words
Just a question then, is your username to avoid your name leaking where you don’t want it to or do you not have an issue with nicknames, but only cutesy talk?
I don’t mind pet names for kids, but hubby and wifey are cringe.
I read the title as infertile isntead of infantile and still agreed
Hubby/wifey sounds like they have this weird fetish they are trying to involunterely bring you into. Hate it
I mean…. This isn’t even an unpopular opinion, it is in fact WHY they use those words. Nobody uses kiddos or hubby because they think it makes them sound professional?
Like to sound cutesy and infantile is the whole point, you don’t have to like it though
I know poking fun at millennial-isms has become so common as to become its own kind of trite, but God all these phrases are just so unbearably 34-year-old coded
I agree, it’s hard to take seriously. I saw a post where someone repeatedly referred to their child as their “tiny human” and I was like….just say “child”
Nothing every thing needs to be taken seriously…
These all infuriate me. The kiddos. The littles.
The other ones I kinda get, but calling a kid “kiddo” is the most normal thing I can imagine.
I enjoy whimsy in my life. I’m unconcerned with being considered cringe. I find joy in my silly words. I also like pineapple on pizza. If I let people’s opinions shape my joy it would be chiseled down to nothing.
Language is more than bare information transfer. There are social functions to pet names and “cute” words. Imagine if your parents only ever spoke to you in a matter of face manner and were never playful or affectionate with how they spoke to you.
(I upvoted because I disagree).
Better to be silly and immature for your words than be silly and immature because you’re judgmental
maybe i wanna sound a little silly!
I personally don’t use any of THESE words, but Fiancé and I say a lot of similar and MAN. Maybe I WANT to be silly
Ok. And what’s wrong with acting childish or not being serious all the fucking time? Isn’t life monotonous enough without having to add a constant seriousness with language all the fucking time? Loosen up a bit.
And sometimes that is my goal. I’m much more likely to be silly than serious (Though I can be. Time and place for everything). Life is more fun that way.
and? who cares.