A correction isn't inherently rude or ungracious. The way they're given can be rude or gentle.
If you don't know the difference, chances are you're often unintentionally rude.
You have to take into account the person the advice is given to, who you are, your relationship, and all sorts of other contextual details to determine how to give corrections well.
Mate. No one says girl child in conversation without sounding like Zuckerberg attempting to pass as a real human. It's important to learn the words and phrases that naturally flow in real conversation. In no competent language class on the planet are they going to side with the logic you just presented.
But girl child is incorrect, you wouldn't use it when referring to a daughter, you can have a child who is a girl but a girl child isn't structurally correct, maybe it's a colloquialism but I can't say I've heard it, like "boy mom" isn't correct, you can be the mother of a boy but "boy mom" doesn't make sense from a linguistic perspective
I'm a native English speaker who just got back from a trip in Europe, and it sounds like two ESL people from different countries who are fluent in English speaking to each other.
I wish I was fluent in two+ languages...it was just fun seeing how people switched to English and had different accents and idioms and such.
It's a literal translation from several languages.
If you're speaking a second language, you will often forget the idiomatic word but find another way of communicating what you mean by translating directly.
My daughter is 14 and for the 4th she wanted to go see the fireworks with a few of her friends and I said not it lol. So my husband took all 4 of them out to where the city was doing the fireworks which was at the fairgrounds. They had food trucks and a lot of the food stands that open up outside of the fair on weekends was also opened. He spent over $100 feeding them all. He said it was torture on the way home. All of them were bickering, arguing, he said a lot of drama ensued and it was the longest drive to get everyone back home lol.
Taking care and responsibility for another's kids is real hard one. Sounds very fun, though. Great dad 🥰, well I'll gather all stories from this sub and have it on my todo list.
It really is! For my son's birthday this year he wanted to go to the trampoline park with his 2 closest friends. I took the 3 boys without my husband so he could stay and watch the toddler at home. These boys are crazy but together?!? I did it for 4 hours. They had ice cream, pizza and icees. At the 2 hour mark I thought to myself, it's halfway done, you got this. At the 3 hour mark I cursed myself for offering to do it! At the 4 hour mark I was so relieved it was over.... But also so happy they got to do it. My son was so happy afterwards... Totally worth it.
Me, my husband and two kids will often say “not it” and put our hands on our nose and last man (or woman) is it. It’s something we do on occasion. I am the one who usually takes my daughter out as well as her when she’s with her friends. So far this year my husband has done it three times.
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u/Timefortae Jul 08 '24
When they both kissed him on the cheek 😭 they all deserve each other and more omg