"Baby, Honey, Darling, Sweetie" (guy, single, husband, kiss)
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Some people use such expressions so much that when they use the first name for a change, the one so addressed feels like they have done something wrong and are about to be punished
But baby etc. are cool for people who have lots of lovers, they don't have to be afraid of confusing their first names
I just call a lot of people sweetie/honey. I do it without really thinking about it. I don't mind it when someone calls me one of those names... However, "sweet cheeks" I don't like. No idea why, I just don't.
I just call a lot of people sweetie/honey. I do it without really thinking about it. I don't mind it when someone calls me one of those names... However, "sweet cheeks" I don't like. No idea why, I just don't.
Sweet cheeks sounds like a hamster, or a little boy with his mouth full of chocolate
When I used to work at the call center (Surveyor, as in "Did you like your banking experience at _____ Bank?"), I was always called Honey, Hon', Sugar, Sug, Sweetie, Darlin', Baby, Sonny, Child and Sweet Child by Southern women wherever I happened to call in the south (gosh I love automated dialers, it told me on the screen where I was calling! ). It's something about those statements that makes me feel all gushy, maybe I'm just a sap for that sort of thing.
I got "sweetie" when I worked at a call center too.
"Sweetie, please don't read me all that. I just wanna get a credit card so's I can do a blance transfer."
"Well it's a federal law..."
"I know that, darlin', but can't ya just cut it short for me, please?"
And I get it a lot now as a cashier. Think you get it much more when you work in any kind of service.
"Sweetie, could you get me some quarters so my grandson can get a gumball?
I just wanna scream "I'm checking out someone else and I'm not your sweetie, GRANDPA!!!"
Let's be realistic here....Im a 31 year old male and do get this line from women a lot..."can i get u somethin else sweetie?" when i'm at a bar or restaurant....i know they don't like me like that but i get it a lot, and i see what the OP is saying...why is it if I'm at work serving a woman that it is seen as inappropriate compared to when a woman says it?
Let's be realistic here....Im a 31 year old male and do get this line from women a lot..."can i get u somethin else sweetie?" when i'm at a bar or restaurant....i know they don't like me like that but i get it a lot, and i see what the OP is saying...why is it if I'm at work serving a woman that it is seen as inappropriate compared to when a woman says it?
Probably because of history. For a long time women were denied respect, and calling them such names is considered a continuation of that.
Between colleagues I find it inappropriate in both ways. Outside the office I find it OK in both ways. If one does not like it, ignore the person and go away or whatever.
To me those four expressions are quite different from each other. On a scale, calling someone baby seems the most severe case, whereas I find sweetie rather nice. Of course that always depends on how one says it. One can turn the nicest word into a weapon, and the ugliest into a compliment.
It's probably more of a Southern or Midwest thing, all these terms are exceptable.
For the record it's not Darling, it's Darlin said with a true southern drawl. That's one of the ultimate good things a man can call his SO. Baby falls into the same category a wife calls her man.
A true southerner knows how to use each with affection or sarcastically.
Well Bless Your Heart! Darlin!!!!!
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