PSA

[rivka]

How not to get into my research study: Part 17283 of a continuing series.

1. Call me "baby."

1a. Call me "baby" again, after I already told you not to.

2. "When did you last use heroin or cocaine?" (Voice slurring, eyes drooping, head rolling and nodding) "When? It was juuuuust... before... I got... clean."

Comments

[ailbhe]

I've never encountered "baby" except from men with, er, that kind of attitude. "Honey" is a sort of generic term of endearment, like "love," and might be used by tea-ladies or busdrivers or, well, anyone except bosses or customers, really.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I've never encountered "baby" except from men with, er, that kind of attitude. "Honey" is a sort of generic term of endearment, like "love," and might be used by tea-ladies or busdrivers or, well, anyone except bosses or customers, really.

I don't think "love" is ever used that way in the states, except perhaps by extreme Anglophiles. The ubiquitous term waitresses use here in Baltimore is "hon." I've never heard "baby" used as a generic term of endearment by a white person; it's mostly used by African-American ladies old enough to be my mother.

[ailbhe]

My-aunt-who-lived-in-America says "hon". As a result, so do I.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

'Hon' makes me laugh because it sounds exactly the same as 'Hun.' :-)

-J

[sashajwolf.livejournal.com]

In London, I usually get "love" from men of any age and women of the same age as me or younger, and "dear" from women who are distinctly older than I am. In Glasgow, it would be "hen" from both groups, which I've always found rather endearing.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

I've never heard "baby" used as a generic term of endearment by a white person; it's mostly used by African-American ladies old enough to be my mother.

One of the cashiers at one of the cafeterias at school is a member of this demographic. In a single transaction, she will call any given customer "honey," "baby," and either "sweetie" or "darlin'".

[the-siobhan.livejournal.com]

When I used to work with strippers, they always called everybody "hon", "baby" and "love".

I picked up "hon" for a little while. It's a habit I've fortunately mostly gotten over, but it still slips out occasionally.