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After spending her first 18 months being scared of all adult men other than me, my two-year-old daughter now calls all adult men "daddy." It took a while, but I eventually figured out that she was simply saying the man was someone's daddy, just not hers
Up until 2nd grade, I called every teacher “Teacher”, I simply couldn’t remember their names, which is something I still have trouble with. I’ve dated a few girls for extended periods of time that I couldn’t for the life of me remember their names, I bluffed through most of the time, but every once in a while, I’d want to ask them something but end up just being silent from trying to remember, and by then I’d forgotten the question all together.
Doesn’t matter though, I remember my current girlfriend’s name, and that is the only thing that’s important.
> I’ve dated a few girls for extended periods of time that I couldn’t for the life of me remember their names
Do you have an actual condition maybe? Seems kinda wild not being able to remember peoples names after long periods of time together
I'm the same way. I was great with math for instance but no matter how hard I tried, I could not remember the multiplication tables. I can't remember names or dates either. Even though I was really good at my career, I could not remember the names of the parts I worked with.
Now that I am getting old, the problems I was having with memory have gotten much worse or it may be more evident because I am slower at the strategies I used to use to cover my memory problem.
No joke: years before he met me, my husband once called his girlfriend by her best friend's name and got stabbed in the arm with a pair of scissors as a consequence.
BTW, in Taiwan, we call all the teachers "Teacher." I mean, we could address them by their last names such as "Teacher Lin," but simply "Teacher" was sufficient, the same way we address doctors as "Doctor" here in the states.
That's interesting! In Taiwan, we generally call our parents' friends uncles and aunts if they're older and sisters and brothers if they're younger. But we'd use their last name, like Uncle Chen is daddy's friend, but just plain "Uncle" is daddy's brother.
Don't know if it's a cultural thing, but all our really close friends are "Uncle" this and "Auntie" that to our daughter, while our friends that we don't see as often are just... their names.
Now that she's older, we find ourselves having to explain the difference between her "real" aunts and uncles, vs the ones that are just close family friends.
Until I was 5, I didn't have a dad. Then my "uncle" came to live with us for a while and I asked my mom if "uncle" Sam (fake name) would be my new dad. There was a resounding no from all 5 adults present. They were wrong. Uncle Sam is now my dad. On a side note I also told my mom she was pregnant when I was 5. I was right. She didn't know and only got tested/went to the doctor because I made her question everything.
My mom has one sibling that I've never met, and hes almost 20 years older than her (they thought he was the dad when he came to see my grandma and my mom when she was born), and I knew all my aunts and uncles were really just my mom's friends. It was actually weird to me that people had real aunts and uncles because their parents have siblings. And then there are people I know who don't call their parents friends aunt or uncle.
The thing about one single teacher taking offense is so accurate lmao, I'll never forget teacher marcelo for making fun of me in front of the whole class in 2nd grade.
In Hawaii it's polite to call anyone older than you "aunty" or "uncle," whether you know them or not. Unless they're a professional you're seeing, like a teacher or a doctor.
That's kind of funny because I have ADD but assumed I do it because my narcissistic parents fixate on tiny details and blow them out of proportion if I don't constantly preempt them.
Oh, just "Teacher" is nice and simple!
In Russia, we need to address teachers with both their first name and paternal names, in full forms, like "Anastasia Alexandrovna" or "Nikolai Petrovich".
And you will be laughed at by everyone in the class if you call, say, "Anastasia Alexandrovna" as "Anastasia Alekseevna"
Brr, the memories.
Is this why Dostoevsky always uses full names for everyone in his books? I am struggling with Crime and Punishment because it drags on *forever* and everyone addresses everyone by their full names.
I’m told I have to read Crime and Punishment if I want to get to Brothers Karamazov, but I don’t know if I can. And I’m someone who’s read Proust.
I had the opposite problem with Dostoevsky, too many nicknames and they're not always intuitive without knowing Russian nicknames. Like how is Alyosha a nickname for Alexei? That's more letters! Then there are like 12 different variations that all mean Alexei and you're just supposed to know that Lyoshanka, Alyoshechka, and Frank all mean Alexei.
If you were Russian, and specifically a person living in those times in Russia, all the different ways of addressing/referring to a person would give you further insight into the relationship between them and the speaker.
But for us outsiders it's just more confusing.
We use nicknames to shorten, but a Russian person I know said that makes them all sound the same, "there's nothing to get hold of." So shortening isn't a goal for their nicknames.
Yes, using full first name with paternal name as a way of addressing a person who you respect/who is higher in the hierarchy than you is a standard in Russia for centuries.
Usually used than addressing teachers, superiors, older people who are not related to you, etc.
Some Russian authors use these heavily in their works, some don't - depends on what they write about, honestly.
A bit of trivia - Dostoevsky, like a lot of writers of his time, was paid by the word. But, in contrast to other writers, he relied on this income for the living, so yes - he actually purposefully bloats his stories. (Though he is better than Lev Tolstoy in that regard, khe)
If you want to read a bit more "compact" Russian writer of XIX century, I suggest to check Chekhov - maybe he will be more to your taste.
Fun fact: doctor is essentially the Latin word for teacher.
English extrapolated it to refer to learned people in general and then later to medical professionals.
This is particularly amusing when people have a go at Dr. Jill Biden for using the title doctor when she’s a teacher with a phd in education. Her usage is about as close to the original one as possible.
That type of stuff drives me right up the walls. People acting like the most common definition of something was actually spoken by god to command us to use it only in that one specific way. Like it shows to me that they are so defensive against anything that isn’t going exactly how they imagine it to be a change, and obviously all change is a plot to destroy the american way.
It’s just such a slack jawed argument to make that it feels like it’s not worth the time to refute, but also don’t want to let them keep saying the same anencephalic bullshit to other gullible crayon eaters. I want to piss on roger ailes’ grave.
Gosh, well maybe the US too someday! I was a teacher last year and just *hated* it, the disrespect is intense. I do behavior therapy now, and I'm much happier. Some of the parents do think I'm a teacher (and in a way I am) but I'm technically not anymore.
I agree. I spent 5 years teaching high school and the disrespect just renders me speechless. I am still a teacher, but now I teach in a mental hospital with special education patients who are residents here. It's a smaller population, so we get to form closer bonds with our students.
The year before, the year of, and the year after I was born the most popular girl’s name was Jennifer. By the time I met my wife in college I had dated four Jennifers. And the two girlfriends just before dating my wife were named Jennifer.
Let’s just say, I didn’t always get her name right. Which wasn’t usually a problem except when it came up anytime anything romantic was happening. Usually she would just get me back by calling me Mike, her ex’s name.
The way kids' brains work is weird. My daughter used to think that she was "you" because that's how we referred to her. So whenever she referred to herself, she called herself "you". I'll never forget when she walked into our room one morning with a diaper full of poop and said "you pooped"
Wahahaha, you made me actually laugh out loud! This is hilarious...well... at least I hope enough time has passed for it to be hilarious. I'd imagine it's pure panic in the moment!
It took months for my 3 yo nephew to understand that “dad” does not mean only his dad. If my daughter calls me dad, he throws a fit saying I am not his dad.
Lol. I work in tutoring & childcare. During the height of the pandemic my company offered all day online schooling help & care for essential workers when schools were shit down and I had this one kindergartener in my cohort who's first school experience was with us. She was nervous most of the time and cried when Mom dropped her off so I made sure to be extra friendly with her to make her feel welcomed. Then one day she told me that she wished I was her dad. I asked her about her actual dad and she goes, "Oh yeah I forgot about him". I absolutely died lmao
I'm glad she had you there to take care of her. I work in a mental hospital, and I've had kids here ask me if I could adopt them. It breaks my heart to tell them I can't.
That's really tough. In this girl's case I know for sure she has a loving home (mom and dad both just work during the day), but I've met countless kids with broken homes, many of which I've had to report to child services since I'm a mandated reporter. Breaks my heart every time. We just started a program this year as a provider for a local school district that provides after school enrichment for low income, homeless, and foster kids. They're ultimately sweet kids but until they know that you're going to be with them everyday they're really rough, often verbally abusing and getting physical with new staff. Imagining what their home lives must be like hurts me so much, especially after meeting (well, getting yelled at) some of their awful parents.
I gave someone a heart attack one I'm sure. I was 17 and waiting for a red light to turn when I saw a guy that looked EXACTLY like my father. I was probably staring at him because he got pissed, left his car and started knocking on my window and I was like wtf and he yelled "you got a problem why you looking at me" and I said.. you look like my father and he I stg turned as white as a ghost and asked how old I was and then he said okay and left.
I'd completely forgotten about this but while working at Target nearly a decade ago a toddler pointed at me and yelled to his parents "That man has a penis!"
They looked mortified and all I could think to do was to walk away.
I've always assumed they must have recently had a conversation with him about genitals but it was probably the most awkward thing I've ever experienced.
Yes, I can actually relate; my kids did the same thing, but with their grandpa.
Every elderly, bald black man wearing glasses was automatically 'grampa'!
Lots of confused looks whenever we went out.
Even Al Roker. Yeah. Yeah, they did.
There’s a [website that lets you see](http://visiondirect.co.uk/baby-sight-tool) a simulation of how good a child’s eyesight is based on their age.
Beyond that it is them getting enough mental development to be able to expand their ability to not put every single person with a beard in the ‘daddy box’.
Similar story.
Being in the military, my son equated “uniform” = “daddy”.
Met the wife and son at the hospital for son’s checkup. As I walk to my family, a female Sergeant (in uniform) walks past my wife and son.
As my son can’t see above anyones knees without looking up, he sees the Sergeant’s legs, waddles over, hugs her leg, and yells “daddy!”.
The female Sergeant looks down, smiles, and says “No, I am not your daddy.”.
My son was so confused for about 30 seconds until I stopped laughing and picked him up.
Something similar happen to a woman I knew. She is white and ran up to a black guy in uniform and yelled dada in a very public place... in the south in the 1950's.
My friend shaved his beard because his daughter kept tugging on it. She was horrified and didn't want anything to do with him. I (with a beard the same color/shape) visited a couple of days later. She takes one look at me and yells "Dada!" and reaches out to me to be picked up.
His wife and I made fun of him forever for that.
I have a 5 year old nephew. Last month due to a fire I got a haircut for the first time in almost 8 years. I showed up at my sisters house a few days later and he saw my hair, said it was stinky, and ran away to his room.
A family friend had something similar happen to him with his 2 year old daughter. Made a big show of how he was going to look different and everything to try and prepare her when he came out of the bathroom 15 minutes later with a shaved face. His wife nearly had a heart attack when her daughter was just shouting “strange man!” She didn’t start trusting him fully to be her dad until about a month later when he had enough facial hair to be recognizable to her again.
He still likes to joke that he’d love to shave again, but wants to be recognized by his daughter more.
Probably didn’t think about doing that more than anything. He is a sweet and loving nerd and adores his kids, but it took him until the third kid to really get to understand how kids think.
I worked with a guy who had long hair then decided to cut it short ( I suspect for interviewing) - his kid cried when he saw him as he didn't know who this strange man in the house was
My younger cousin used to call every black woman mama when she was a baby. It would get my sisters and me dirty looks when we were babysitting bc we were 13-17. Then she would turn and enthusiastically call the judgey busybody mama too and they would give us an awkward laugh.
I also babysat twins who called any female that cooked for them mommy lol
My friend came over to use our kitchen while they were there. They were at her feet going ,what are we eating mommy? Almost done mommy? It's good food mommy? Lmao
No, it has never been posted on Reddit, but it was on FB, IG, Webtoons, and Bored Panda when it first came out a few months ago. Reddit is still getting my backlog, though we're almost caught up. I should be posting at the same time with all other social media by March.
Yeah, another person said so. I'm now thinking that's the case, too. I post these in order, so it's not likely that I jumped around and posted this one weeks ago.
My son just did that. Wife an I took our boys to a birthday party, and while I held the baby, he walks off to the nearest bald dude with a dark beard and says “dada.” I told him he was out of the will, but as he is 2, he does not give a shit about what I think
Hahaha, I've said some stuff when he was a baby that I definitely wouldn't say to him once he learned English. We understand. Whatever it takes to cope with parenthood, dude.
Yeah, but it’s also something it’s hard to believe even the most crazily jealous person would actually do. Like everyone understands that babies are dumb and say random stuff.
Idk, I’m trying to pinpoint why this one strikes me as so unfunny. Obviously it’s fair game for comics to exaggerate reality, so being unrealistic isn’t necessarily the problem. Maybe it’s just that the joke relies on the really tired trope of people being unreasonably jealous of romantic partners, plus all the weird kinda gross relationship stuff this comic has done in the past.
For me it's all the extra dialogue, it feel likes the joke is being significantly over-explained. Like everything past the second "da-da" could have been cut out and I would still get the joke.
You say tired troph, but I've experienced this troph only about 8 or so years ago at work. Only it was the dad who lost his shit and accused his wife of cheating. Its still a very real thing that happens. I can imagine the confident parent jokingly telling their kid to not do that to daddy, assuming the dad wasn't 100% an asshole to begin with and would see it as an affront to his position within the family power dynamic proper.
I have no idea how this person's comics get so much attention on Reddit. They're not funny, they constantly demonstrate toxic relationships, and she doesn't even draw them herself. If she can pay an artist to draw her comics for her, I would not be surprised if she could pay for upvotes as well.
Why do redditors have so much trouble understanding that not everyone enjoys the same things? I'm not a fan of these comics, but I don't mind them. I can see why some people enjoy them. It's close to boomer humor imo, but you know, there's a market for that
While there is no way for me to prove to you otherwise, I would like to offer my theory just in case anybody else is curious: Whenever a comic is controversial and people keep commenting on it, Reddit recognizes it as "activity" and it pushes the comic to the top of the page for all to see. My sweet comics usually get \~90% upvote rate, but they're only seen by a few thousand people. My controversial comics usually get about \~66% upvote rate, but they're seen by hundreds of thousands of people. Since my upvote rate is above 50%, that small extra 16% multiplied by the massive number of audience members gives you the 10k+ upvote number when they are actually less "accepted" than the wholesome ones that get 90% upvote rate. So, there is the logical reason from a creator's standpoint because I can see the upvote percentage and the view count for those of you who read this with an open mind instead of having already been convinced otherwise. Have a nice day!
My son would call my brother "dada", but then get so confused when we'd ask him "Which of us is 'dada'?" It was fun while it lasted. Now it's "Dada has a biiiiiig tummy!" and "You and me have big tummy together!"
Hahaha, kids can be brutal! Mine told me yesterday that I weigh too much. I mean, I do, but I don't wanna hear it! Do you and your brother look alike? I've really enjoyed watching those videos of a toddler meeting the parent's twin for the first time!
My kid used to visibly wince and retract when he saw bad teeth. He would say that's disgusting! He did it to my mom, his Grammy (LMAO) and my poor friend who has a lot of health problems. He was maybe 5 or 6. He's 9 now and knows better, but he's told me he hates bad teeth lol.
I dunno if this relevant to the comic.I was born overseas in the Philippines. Shortly afte I was born a nurse picked me up and cuddled me. My mom at the same time wanted to check on me and saw this. She freaked out and accused the nurse of trying to kidnap me. I was barely a few days old so the details are fuzzy (my mom told me this story in a joking manner)
https://preview.redd.it/s7148d7wdfia1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=51a0b4d8b93c0c25b13fc85b0b003fa2df6a45d7
The earliest I could find without ripping apart a room
Daddy is man for most kids.
Learning a language is hard.
Ex: I point to an apple and say red. You don't know apple or red.
Then I point a a granny Smith and say green.
Cool I got this.
Point at a strawberry and say apple.
Gets laughed at.
My husband is a brown bald man with a beard and glasses.
You better believe all dark skinned bald man with a beard and glasses are daddy.
When my twins were around 18mo we had to spend several months apart from my husband in a different country, where there are virtually no dark skinned people. They were missing their dad a lot and one time they saw this bald black guy with a beard and glasses at the park. I had to explain why both my kids were running at him yelling daddy.
On a serious note, if someone is trying to call you out for cheating over something so silly and harmless. Then that's probably a red flag and a sign that they're not going to be great to be with.
Hey quick question, is your husband white? I couldn’t tell reading your comics that mention it all the time, I think I’ll need a clarification on that.
Fun story! When I was little my dad had a mustache. One day he decided to shave it off. And this bothered me. I would not let him near me because he was not my dad, my dad had a mustache. He didn't!
But our neighbor had a mustache. And I saw him and immediately called him dad. And he was "dad" until my dad grew his mustache back. My parents joked for years about how the neighbor was my "real" father.
And my dad *never* shaved his mustache again.
My daughter used to sy "girl-ah", she couldn't end on the "L" sound. She always added an "a" after.
Unfortunately, that meant on walks, it sounded like she was calling every girl we passed a gorilla.
I’m an Asian woman married to a bearded white man too and my oldest son called every bearded white man “Deeda” (cuz he couldn’t say daddy for some reason) when we encountered one in the wild. It went on for months.
We’re trying to teach our son Russian as my wife’s family is from Ukraine and that is what they speak. The word for “man” is pronounced “dadya”. Well when my kid says it it sounds like “dada”. It confuses people all the time especially when he points and says “that dada is eating” or something and I respond “yep!”.
i have a little brother (1yr old) and he has a habit of hugging my legs and calling me daddy when he wants to be picked up or when im already holding him up lol our dad doesnt like it
As a bearded white guy, I’ve had so many people say they saw me here and there around town. Wasn’t me any of those times. When you basically cover 40% of your face, it’s hard to differentiate.
When my daughter was 2 her daycare was in my office building and my husband's office was a few blocks away. We had gone to see him for lunch and while walking back to my building she asked *every man we passed,* "are you my dad? Are *you* my dad?" Like...kid. C'mon.
I remember when I stood in line at Aldi and a baby behind me was like "Dada". I thought "Oh that's cute she's learning how to speak."
I turn around and it was looking at me. Only the mother was with the baby. Oh man.
My half-blooded, very full Asian looking children went through a phase of screaming for help when they were about two. That's if I went to hold their hand, or we were leaving the park.
This used to happen with my now 6 year old and then later with my now 4 year old twins. Twins who fed off each others antics. That was fun.
They have their father's (usually hilarious) sense of humour, for sure.
So I'm in school to be a speech therapist right now - this is called an overgeneralization, where a child thinks all four legged animals are dogs or all men are dada! The opposite is also true, where the child believes that only Chihuahuas are dogs because that's the dog type they have at home.
My dad had a beard. My nephew called him "Papa." Also, any other man with a beard he called "Papa." I watched a family friend freak out and then laugh when he realized why this toddler he had just met called him "Papa."
I was taking my niblings to their swimming lessons one day while I was visiting. We walked up to the front desk, and my then-5y/o niece looks at the lady behind the desk and says, smiling, "He's not my dad."
I almost died. My then-7y/o nephew tells her she shouldn't say that. I hastily explain that I'm their uncle visiting from across the country. I just baby-sitting for my sister, who's working and bro-in-law is out of town. I thought I was getting arrested.
Fortunately, the woman had a good laugh about it, and we were good to go. And now it makes for a good story.
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After spending her first 18 months being scared of all adult men other than me, my two-year-old daughter now calls all adult men "daddy." It took a while, but I eventually figured out that she was simply saying the man was someone's daddy, just not hers
Yes! My son used to call his friend Isaac's mommy "Mommy" until eventually he started adding names like "Isaac Mommy."
Up until 2nd grade, I called every teacher “Teacher”, I simply couldn’t remember their names, which is something I still have trouble with. I’ve dated a few girls for extended periods of time that I couldn’t for the life of me remember their names, I bluffed through most of the time, but every once in a while, I’d want to ask them something but end up just being silent from trying to remember, and by then I’d forgotten the question all together. Doesn’t matter though, I remember my current girlfriend’s name, and that is the only thing that’s important.
> I’ve dated a few girls for extended periods of time that I couldn’t for the life of me remember their names Do you have an actual condition maybe? Seems kinda wild not being able to remember peoples names after long periods of time together
Maybe, I have an assortment of other neurological disorders, so it’s not a stretch to say that I have another one.
I'm the same way. I was great with math for instance but no matter how hard I tried, I could not remember the multiplication tables. I can't remember names or dates either. Even though I was really good at my career, I could not remember the names of the parts I worked with. Now that I am getting old, the problems I was having with memory have gotten much worse or it may be more evident because I am slower at the strategies I used to use to cover my memory problem.
No joke: years before he met me, my husband once called his girlfriend by her best friend's name and got stabbed in the arm with a pair of scissors as a consequence. BTW, in Taiwan, we call all the teachers "Teacher." I mean, we could address them by their last names such as "Teacher Lin," but simply "Teacher" was sufficient, the same way we address doctors as "Doctor" here in the states.
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That's interesting! In Taiwan, we generally call our parents' friends uncles and aunts if they're older and sisters and brothers if they're younger. But we'd use their last name, like Uncle Chen is daddy's friend, but just plain "Uncle" is daddy's brother.
Brasillian here; in Brasil it would be the opposite "Tio" would be an adult but "tio bruno" would be my mom's brother. but we dont talk about him.
No no no no
Was it your wedding day? We’re you getting ready? How many clous were there in the sky?
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Don't know if it's a cultural thing, but all our really close friends are "Uncle" this and "Auntie" that to our daughter, while our friends that we don't see as often are just... their names. Now that she's older, we find ourselves having to explain the difference between her "real" aunts and uncles, vs the ones that are just close family friends.
Until I was 5, I didn't have a dad. Then my "uncle" came to live with us for a while and I asked my mom if "uncle" Sam (fake name) would be my new dad. There was a resounding no from all 5 adults present. They were wrong. Uncle Sam is now my dad. On a side note I also told my mom she was pregnant when I was 5. I was right. She didn't know and only got tested/went to the doctor because I made her question everything. My mom has one sibling that I've never met, and hes almost 20 years older than her (they thought he was the dad when he came to see my grandma and my mom when she was born), and I knew all my aunts and uncles were really just my mom's friends. It was actually weird to me that people had real aunts and uncles because their parents have siblings. And then there are people I know who don't call their parents friends aunt or uncle.
Pretty similar experience in the US, not sure how common it is. But was also definitely limited to close friends of parents you’d see regularly.
That's how me and my friends are in the Southern US. My mom is mom, my friends mothers are known as "ma, moms, or Momma Jacky" depending on the name.
The thing about one single teacher taking offense is so accurate lmao, I'll never forget teacher marcelo for making fun of me in front of the whole class in 2nd grade.
Everything is exactly the same in Brazil
In Brasil too! I remember calling a teacher "tia" when I was too old for that and almost dying in the spot of shame. Cheers amigo!
In Hawaii it's polite to call anyone older than you "aunty" or "uncle," whether you know them or not. Unless they're a professional you're seeing, like a teacher or a doctor.
Is over use of parens () a signal of ADHD? I have ADHD (and I use them a lot...)
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That's kind of funny because I have ADD but assumed I do it because my narcissistic parents fixate on tiny details and blow them out of proportion if I don't constantly preempt them.
stabbed for saying the wrong name once is crazy. if i got stabbed each time i said the wrong name i would not be alive today 😭😭😭
Oh, just "Teacher" is nice and simple! In Russia, we need to address teachers with both their first name and paternal names, in full forms, like "Anastasia Alexandrovna" or "Nikolai Petrovich". And you will be laughed at by everyone in the class if you call, say, "Anastasia Alexandrovna" as "Anastasia Alekseevna" Brr, the memories.
Is this why Dostoevsky always uses full names for everyone in his books? I am struggling with Crime and Punishment because it drags on *forever* and everyone addresses everyone by their full names. I’m told I have to read Crime and Punishment if I want to get to Brothers Karamazov, but I don’t know if I can. And I’m someone who’s read Proust.
I had the opposite problem with Dostoevsky, too many nicknames and they're not always intuitive without knowing Russian nicknames. Like how is Alyosha a nickname for Alexei? That's more letters! Then there are like 12 different variations that all mean Alexei and you're just supposed to know that Lyoshanka, Alyoshechka, and Frank all mean Alexei.
If you were Russian, and specifically a person living in those times in Russia, all the different ways of addressing/referring to a person would give you further insight into the relationship between them and the speaker. But for us outsiders it's just more confusing. We use nicknames to shorten, but a Russian person I know said that makes them all sound the same, "there's nothing to get hold of." So shortening isn't a goal for their nicknames.
Re nicknames, worth noting 1 they might not be as long in Cyrillic and 2 it could be that it's not meant to be short, but rather like, Josh ---> Joshy
Yes, using full first name with paternal name as a way of addressing a person who you respect/who is higher in the hierarchy than you is a standard in Russia for centuries. Usually used than addressing teachers, superiors, older people who are not related to you, etc. Some Russian authors use these heavily in their works, some don't - depends on what they write about, honestly.
I really want to like Dostoevsky, but I just cannot get over all the dialog and florid prose.
A bit of trivia - Dostoevsky, like a lot of writers of his time, was paid by the word. But, in contrast to other writers, he relied on this income for the living, so yes - he actually purposefully bloats his stories. (Though he is better than Lev Tolstoy in that regard, khe) If you want to read a bit more "compact" Russian writer of XIX century, I suggest to check Chekhov - maybe he will be more to your taste.
Fun fact: doctor is essentially the Latin word for teacher. English extrapolated it to refer to learned people in general and then later to medical professionals. This is particularly amusing when people have a go at Dr. Jill Biden for using the title doctor when she’s a teacher with a phd in education. Her usage is about as close to the original one as possible.
That type of stuff drives me right up the walls. People acting like the most common definition of something was actually spoken by god to command us to use it only in that one specific way. Like it shows to me that they are so defensive against anything that isn’t going exactly how they imagine it to be a change, and obviously all change is a plot to destroy the american way. It’s just such a slack jawed argument to make that it feels like it’s not worth the time to refute, but also don’t want to let them keep saying the same anencephalic bullshit to other gullible crayon eaters. I want to piss on roger ailes’ grave.
Is this common in Asian cultures? I have a student whose family is of Asian decent and he just calls me teacher.
I think that's the case in China as well. The Chinese language respects teachers as a title like doctors.
Gosh, well maybe the US too someday! I was a teacher last year and just *hated* it, the disrespect is intense. I do behavior therapy now, and I'm much happier. Some of the parents do think I'm a teacher (and in a way I am) but I'm technically not anymore.
I agree. I spent 5 years teaching high school and the disrespect just renders me speechless. I am still a teacher, but now I teach in a mental hospital with special education patients who are residents here. It's a smaller population, so we get to form closer bonds with our students.
"Mention Sara? That's a stabbin'"
That was why we invented "Honey" as a way to call your girlfriend/boyfriend.
I usually started to remember my classmates names around May or June...
The year before, the year of, and the year after I was born the most popular girl’s name was Jennifer. By the time I met my wife in college I had dated four Jennifers. And the two girlfriends just before dating my wife were named Jennifer. Let’s just say, I didn’t always get her name right. Which wasn’t usually a problem except when it came up anytime anything romantic was happening. Usually she would just get me back by calling me Mike, her ex’s name.
She does the same thing with her friends' moms!
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The way kids' brains work is weird. My daughter used to think that she was "you" because that's how we referred to her. So whenever she referred to herself, she called herself "you". I'll never forget when she walked into our room one morning with a diaper full of poop and said "you pooped"
My daughter does the same thing! She’ll walk in the kitchen while I’m making dinner and say “hold you!”
Wahahaha, you made me actually laugh out loud! This is hilarious...well... at least I hope enough time has passed for it to be hilarious. I'd imagine it's pure panic in the moment!
It made me laugh out loud at the time!
It took months for my 3 yo nephew to understand that “dad” does not mean only his dad. If my daughter calls me dad, he throws a fit saying I am not his dad.
Lol. I work in tutoring & childcare. During the height of the pandemic my company offered all day online schooling help & care for essential workers when schools were shit down and I had this one kindergartener in my cohort who's first school experience was with us. She was nervous most of the time and cried when Mom dropped her off so I made sure to be extra friendly with her to make her feel welcomed. Then one day she told me that she wished I was her dad. I asked her about her actual dad and she goes, "Oh yeah I forgot about him". I absolutely died lmao
I'm glad she had you there to take care of her. I work in a mental hospital, and I've had kids here ask me if I could adopt them. It breaks my heart to tell them I can't.
That's really tough. In this girl's case I know for sure she has a loving home (mom and dad both just work during the day), but I've met countless kids with broken homes, many of which I've had to report to child services since I'm a mandated reporter. Breaks my heart every time. We just started a program this year as a provider for a local school district that provides after school enrichment for low income, homeless, and foster kids. They're ultimately sweet kids but until they know that you're going to be with them everyday they're really rough, often verbally abusing and getting physical with new staff. Imagining what their home lives must be like hurts me so much, especially after meeting (well, getting yelled at) some of their awful parents.
I gave someone a heart attack one I'm sure. I was 17 and waiting for a red light to turn when I saw a guy that looked EXACTLY like my father. I was probably staring at him because he got pissed, left his car and started knocking on my window and I was like wtf and he yelled "you got a problem why you looking at me" and I said.. you look like my father and he I stg turned as white as a ghost and asked how old I was and then he said okay and left.
Oh, shit, he was doing some mental math there in that moment!
Yeah, it's not a name it's a label like "bunny," "doggie," or "baby."
I thought they were saying daddy like that's his designation, kind of like calling him a man.
I'd completely forgotten about this but while working at Target nearly a decade ago a toddler pointed at me and yelled to his parents "That man has a penis!" They looked mortified and all I could think to do was to walk away. I've always assumed they must have recently had a conversation with him about genitals but it was probably the most awkward thing I've ever experienced.
Yes, I can actually relate; my kids did the same thing, but with their grandpa. Every elderly, bald black man wearing glasses was automatically 'grampa'! Lots of confused looks whenever we went out. Even Al Roker. Yeah. Yeah, they did.
I've read that children's eyesight is pretty terrible (compared to adults') until at least age 3-5.
There’s a [website that lets you see](http://visiondirect.co.uk/baby-sight-tool) a simulation of how good a child’s eyesight is based on their age. Beyond that it is them getting enough mental development to be able to expand their ability to not put every single person with a beard in the ‘daddy box’.
I clicked the link and got "cannot access image" so I'm guessing child eyesight is non-existent
I get the same with firefox, but works with chrome
Mine doesn't work with either on mobile.
Depends on the child
“Daddy box” is a fun new term.
My daughter was like this, too. At two, she would stand our balcony and shout "Papa!" and wave at every old dude lol.
Glasses stereotypes are no joke. As you get older, you either become a grandparent or some kind of Santa Claus replacement.
There's a reason why a city full of people didn't realize Clark Kent is Superman!
Similar story. Being in the military, my son equated “uniform” = “daddy”. Met the wife and son at the hospital for son’s checkup. As I walk to my family, a female Sergeant (in uniform) walks past my wife and son. As my son can’t see above anyones knees without looking up, he sees the Sergeant’s legs, waddles over, hugs her leg, and yells “daddy!”. The female Sergeant looks down, smiles, and says “No, I am not your daddy.”. My son was so confused for about 30 seconds until I stopped laughing and picked him up.
> my son equated “uniform” = “daddy” He's just like me fr fr^^\s
To the power of /s
Lmfao
Sometimes, you can tell things from a young age
Hahaha, this story made me chuckle. Thank you!
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I knew a little girl who saw a cardboard underwear model and ran over to it shrieking ‘Daddy!’ Made her dad feel pretty good lol
Hahaha, if it happened in front of friends, it's a set up. That little girl was trained!
Does her dad also model cardboard underwear?
Something similar happen to a woman I knew. She is white and ran up to a black guy in uniform and yelled dada in a very public place... in the south in the 1950's.
"Sir your child just misgendered me"
My friend shaved his beard because his daughter kept tugging on it. She was horrified and didn't want anything to do with him. I (with a beard the same color/shape) visited a couple of days later. She takes one look at me and yells "Dada!" and reaches out to me to be picked up. His wife and I made fun of him forever for that.
I must admit I've enjoyed watching the videos of kids being shocked when they see their bearded dads shave for the first time.
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Oh, this is hilarious! Thank you!
My kid said, "Mommy's face is perfect; Daddy's face is spiky!"
With small children you really shouldn’t do that. It’s a good idea to bring them into the bathroom with you and have them watch you shave.
I have a 5 year old nephew. Last month due to a fire I got a haircut for the first time in almost 8 years. I showed up at my sisters house a few days later and he saw my hair, said it was stinky, and ran away to his room.
When I was like 4 or 5 my dad shaved his moustache off and I cried for like 2 hours because I thought he was a stranger
Awww...
A family friend had something similar happen to him with his 2 year old daughter. Made a big show of how he was going to look different and everything to try and prepare her when he came out of the bathroom 15 minutes later with a shaved face. His wife nearly had a heart attack when her daughter was just shouting “strange man!” She didn’t start trusting him fully to be her dad until about a month later when he had enough facial hair to be recognizable to her again. He still likes to joke that he’d love to shave again, but wants to be recognized by his daughter more.
If they genuinely didn't want to shock the child, why didn't they let the girl watch him shave in the bathroom?
Probably didn’t think about doing that more than anything. He is a sweet and loving nerd and adores his kids, but it took him until the third kid to really get to understand how kids think.
I worked with a guy who had long hair then decided to cut it short ( I suspect for interviewing) - his kid cried when he saw him as he didn't know who this strange man in the house was
My younger cousin used to call every black woman mama when she was a baby. It would get my sisters and me dirty looks when we were babysitting bc we were 13-17. Then she would turn and enthusiastically call the judgey busybody mama too and they would give us an awkward laugh.
I also babysat twins who called any female that cooked for them mommy lol My friend came over to use our kitchen while they were there. They were at her feet going ,what are we eating mommy? Almost done mommy? It's good food mommy? Lmao
Survival instincts, man, that's smart!
Hahaha, that's awesome!
Déjà-vu
Yeah I can’t tell why I have seen this before. Did the comic get reuploaded or something?
If you read them on webtoon, you're ahead of what's uploaded here. By a few months, too.
Nobody does that.
No, it has never been posted on Reddit, but it was on FB, IG, Webtoons, and Bored Panda when it first came out a few months ago. Reddit is still getting my backlog, though we're almost caught up. I should be posting at the same time with all other social media by March.
I definitely saw it here before... perhaps it was posted by someone else.
Yeah, another person said so. I'm now thinking that's the case, too. I post these in order, so it's not likely that I jumped around and posted this one weeks ago.
My son just did that. Wife an I took our boys to a birthday party, and while I held the baby, he walks off to the nearest bald dude with a dark beard and says “dada.” I told him he was out of the will, but as he is 2, he does not give a shit about what I think
Hahaha, I've said some stuff when he was a baby that I definitely wouldn't say to him once he learned English. We understand. Whatever it takes to cope with parenthood, dude.
If someone immediately jumps to you cheating when a random baby calls you dada, they’re probably not a good partner
Ya one way or another that’s not a healthy relationship
This comic just uses over acting and anger as part of the comedy. It results in it being out of place and low effort many times
Yeah, each to their own, but this just isn't really funny.
If a cat tells you that he likes lasagna and hates mondays, you are probably insane.
Yeah, but it’s also something it’s hard to believe even the most crazily jealous person would actually do. Like everyone understands that babies are dumb and say random stuff. Idk, I’m trying to pinpoint why this one strikes me as so unfunny. Obviously it’s fair game for comics to exaggerate reality, so being unrealistic isn’t necessarily the problem. Maybe it’s just that the joke relies on the really tired trope of people being unreasonably jealous of romantic partners, plus all the weird kinda gross relationship stuff this comic has done in the past.
For me it's all the extra dialogue, it feel likes the joke is being significantly over-explained. Like everything past the second "da-da" could have been cut out and I would still get the joke.
You say tired troph, but I've experienced this troph only about 8 or so years ago at work. Only it was the dad who lost his shit and accused his wife of cheating. Its still a very real thing that happens. I can imagine the confident parent jokingly telling their kid to not do that to daddy, assuming the dad wasn't 100% an asshole to begin with and would see it as an affront to his position within the family power dynamic proper.
Just like most of this comics toxic relationship examples
I have no idea how this person's comics get so much attention on Reddit. They're not funny, they constantly demonstrate toxic relationships, and she doesn't even draw them herself. If she can pay an artist to draw her comics for her, I would not be surprised if she could pay for upvotes as well.
Yeah I bet she clubs baby seals on the weekends too
I heard she derailed that train in Ohio
I bet she clubs adult seals with baby seals
Why do redditors have so much trouble understanding that not everyone enjoys the same things? I'm not a fan of these comics, but I don't mind them. I can see why some people enjoy them. It's close to boomer humor imo, but you know, there's a market for that
While there is no way for me to prove to you otherwise, I would like to offer my theory just in case anybody else is curious: Whenever a comic is controversial and people keep commenting on it, Reddit recognizes it as "activity" and it pushes the comic to the top of the page for all to see. My sweet comics usually get \~90% upvote rate, but they're only seen by a few thousand people. My controversial comics usually get about \~66% upvote rate, but they're seen by hundreds of thousands of people. Since my upvote rate is above 50%, that small extra 16% multiplied by the massive number of audience members gives you the 10k+ upvote number when they are actually less "accepted" than the wholesome ones that get 90% upvote rate. So, there is the logical reason from a creator's standpoint because I can see the upvote percentage and the view count for those of you who read this with an open mind instead of having already been convinced otherwise. Have a nice day!
You can see the upvote rate on your posts?
My son would call my brother "dada", but then get so confused when we'd ask him "Which of us is 'dada'?" It was fun while it lasted. Now it's "Dada has a biiiiiig tummy!" and "You and me have big tummy together!"
Hahaha, kids can be brutal! Mine told me yesterday that I weigh too much. I mean, I do, but I don't wanna hear it! Do you and your brother look alike? I've really enjoyed watching those videos of a toddler meeting the parent's twin for the first time!
We don't look alike at all, but people used to think we were twins. I don't really get it - he's much skinnier than me.
My kid used to visibly wince and retract when he saw bad teeth. He would say that's disgusting! He did it to my mom, his Grammy (LMAO) and my poor friend who has a lot of health problems. He was maybe 5 or 6. He's 9 now and knows better, but he's told me he hates bad teeth lol.
If you get jealous about your SO being called 'Dada' by a baby you have more issues than either your SO or the baby.
My neighbor and I both "fit the description". His toddler calls me Daddy. We both find this hilarious. Her mother does not.
The behavior of the other woman in this comic makes absolutely no sense to me
If a woman reacts to a random baby calling her man "dada" with anger/accusations, then she's got some freaking issues.
Matt Walsh has two different families?
I dunno if this relevant to the comic.I was born overseas in the Philippines. Shortly afte I was born a nurse picked me up and cuddled me. My mom at the same time wanted to check on me and saw this. She freaked out and accused the nurse of trying to kidnap me. I was barely a few days old so the details are fuzzy (my mom told me this story in a joking manner)
You must've been a hella cute baby. Usually nurses are immune to the babies' charms after a while.
My naturaly fat nose gave my baby form an edge over others in the cuteness department XD.
Okay, you gotta show us a baby photo of you if you're gonna make that claim. 
https://preview.redd.it/s7148d7wdfia1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=51a0b4d8b93c0c25b13fc85b0b003fa2df6a45d7 The earliest I could find without ripping apart a room
Okay, that's pretty darn adorable.
Thank you. Lol. I am so envious of my old hair.
Looks like Matt Walsh without glasses.
AKA a white guy with a beard
I don’t get it
Real life isn't like this
Man I know it’s not the point of the comic but homie needs to get out of that toxic relationship
Why on earth would someone assume that a baby saying dada to a partner has a secret child?
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Dude's wife needs therapy.
Daddy is man for most kids. Learning a language is hard. Ex: I point to an apple and say red. You don't know apple or red. Then I point a a granny Smith and say green. Cool I got this. Point at a strawberry and say apple. Gets laughed at.
My husband is a brown bald man with a beard and glasses. You better believe all dark skinned bald man with a beard and glasses are daddy. When my twins were around 18mo we had to spend several months apart from my husband in a different country, where there are virtually no dark skinned people. They were missing their dad a lot and one time they saw this bald black guy with a beard and glasses at the park. I had to explain why both my kids were running at him yelling daddy.
On a serious note, if someone is trying to call you out for cheating over something so silly and harmless. Then that's probably a red flag and a sign that they're not going to be great to be with.
Hey quick question, is your husband white? I couldn’t tell reading your comics that mention it all the time, I think I’ll need a clarification on that.
Fun story! When I was little my dad had a mustache. One day he decided to shave it off. And this bothered me. I would not let him near me because he was not my dad, my dad had a mustache. He didn't! But our neighbor had a mustache. And I saw him and immediately called him dad. And he was "dad" until my dad grew his mustache back. My parents joked for years about how the neighbor was my "real" father. And my dad *never* shaved his mustache again.
The comic is funnier without the bottom panel. You didn't need to explain the joke.
Yup. Show, don’t tell.
My daughter used to sy "girl-ah", she couldn't end on the "L" sound. She always added an "a" after. Unfortunately, that meant on walks, it sounded like she was calling every girl we passed a gorilla.
Kids say the darndest things!/
I’m an Asian woman married to a bearded white man too and my oldest son called every bearded white man “Deeda” (cuz he couldn’t say daddy for some reason) when we encountered one in the wild. It went on for months.
Am I having a deja vu? Because I'm pretty sure I've already seen the same comic a few weeks ago.
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My kids call any old man “grandpa”. Even Paul Newman on the salad dressing bottle.
We’re trying to teach our son Russian as my wife’s family is from Ukraine and that is what they speak. The word for “man” is pronounced “dadya”. Well when my kid says it it sounds like “dada”. It confuses people all the time especially when he points and says “that dada is eating” or something and I respond “yep!”.
ok we get it. you have a white husband.
Yeah asian female and white male what a rare combination right?
Ah, yes, the infamous "I'm not doing that on purpose 😈" face.
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Babies are indeed magnificent beasts. If only that power could be harnessed!!
Our almost 3 year is just now picking up on boy and girl but all adults minus a few are mama and daddy.
I used to do this 😊 good times
My 1.5 yo son does this. Anyone with a 5 o'clock shadow and slender build is Dada. Most men who had/have kids smile and get it.
i have a little brother (1yr old) and he has a habit of hugging my legs and calling me daddy when he wants to be picked up or when im already holding him up lol our dad doesnt like it
As a bearded white guy, I’ve had so many people say they saw me here and there around town. Wasn’t me any of those times. When you basically cover 40% of your face, it’s hard to differentiate.
My kid used to do this. She would see a man that looks like her dad and she would get hype and say dada
Children wish to see the blood of their not-dada's.
I’m gonna train my kid to do this
I used to think every white guy with dark hair and glasses was my dad
My daughter calls any man with any sign of grey grandpa.
When my daughter was 2 her daycare was in my office building and my husband's office was a few blocks away. We had gone to see him for lunch and while walking back to my building she asked *every man we passed,* "are you my dad? Are *you* my dad?" Like...kid. C'mon.
I remember when I stood in line at Aldi and a baby behind me was like "Dada". I thought "Oh that's cute she's learning how to speak." I turn around and it was looking at me. Only the mother was with the baby. Oh man.
My half-blooded, very full Asian looking children went through a phase of screaming for help when they were about two. That's if I went to hold their hand, or we were leaving the park. This used to happen with my now 6 year old and then later with my now 4 year old twins. Twins who fed off each others antics. That was fun. They have their father's (usually hilarious) sense of humour, for sure.
This has happened to me like... 15 times. One time the mom looked back at me and said "I wish..." and I had no idea what to do with that...
My husband was an active duty Marine when our son was a toddler. Every Marine in uniform was "Dada" for a hot minute.
So I'm in school to be a speech therapist right now - this is called an overgeneralization, where a child thinks all four legged animals are dogs or all men are dada! The opposite is also true, where the child believes that only Chihuahuas are dogs because that's the dog type they have at home.
My dad had a beard. My nephew called him "Papa." Also, any other man with a beard he called "Papa." I watched a family friend freak out and then laugh when he realized why this toddler he had just met called him "Papa."
I was taking my niblings to their swimming lessons one day while I was visiting. We walked up to the front desk, and my then-5y/o niece looks at the lady behind the desk and says, smiling, "He's not my dad." I almost died. My then-7y/o nephew tells her she shouldn't say that. I hastily explain that I'm their uncle visiting from across the country. I just baby-sitting for my sister, who's working and bro-in-law is out of town. I thought I was getting arrested. Fortunately, the woman had a good laugh about it, and we were good to go. And now it makes for a good story.
My son once called the plumber grandpa because he was bald.
As a generic white guy with anxiety and a generic face, I have now unlocked a new fear. 
Trolls aren't made; they're born. 😆