• _stranger_@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Ah, see what you mean. Yeah, the term is never used like a nick or pet name, it’s a state, like Dead or Pregnant. “He’s my baby daddy” isn’t a term of endearment, it’s literally “To [this] baby, [he] is daddy”

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      In Newcastle we call cats pussies without a single crease in our faces, you’re just gooner brained, words do mean other things in the offline world…