Do you also hate the phrase "significant other"?

[DerpiesFreud]

but mybb people use 'so' the most I find... maybe I live in a strange place
I prefer girlfriend/boyfriend or husband/wife
or 'partner'
significant other implies they are significant
/runs!!

 

[azbob]

but mybb people use 'so' the most I find... maybe I live in a strange place
I prefer girlfriend/boyfriend or husband/wife
or 'partner'
significant other implies they are significant
/runs!!

"Significant other" inadvertently implies that everyone else in your life is insignificant. The floozie you've been with for 3 weeks is more significant to you than your mother...or cat? GTFO.

 

[Mephisto_Helix]

Actually, they like using the term life partner, even though many of their relationships are not for life.

1) pretty ignorant and/or bigoted
2) it is their partner in life at that moment of their lives, it does not always mean until-we-die.

 

[w1z4rd]

Actually, they like using the term life partner,

Havent heard that term with any of my gay friends.

even though many of their relationships are not for life.

Many marriages fail, so I guess gay people are like normal people

 

[Arthur]

I kinda get 'significant', but wonder just what is signified.

It's 'other' that's problematic.

The combination is bizarre.

 

[D3nz]

I kinda get 'significant', but wonder just what is signified.

It's 'other' that's problematic.

The combination is bizarre.

Exactly how I feel. The word other somehow cancels out the meaning of significant.

A definition of other...
b*often capitalized*:*one considered by members of a dominant group as alien, exotic, threatening, or inferior (as because of different racial, sexual, or cultural characteristics

 

[azbob]

Perhaps the "other" is the same "other" in "my other half".

 

[Chevron]

I kinda get 'significant', but wonder just what is signified.

It's 'other' that's problematic.

The combination is bizarre.

How so?

Significant other refers to a couples. So obviously if only 1 is present you're talking about the "other" one.

 

[HApyM3al]

and here i am.... Forever alone hahaha

 

[Bona Botse]

My SU agrees with OP about my use of SO.

 

[I.am.Sam]

My SU agrees with OP about my use of SO.

significant udder ?

 

[Ockie]

significant udder ?

Or what god intended woman to be in the first place. significant uteris?

 

[I.am.Sam]

Or what god intended woman to be in the first place. significant uteris?

hahahahhaha ....imagine calling blu that in public

 

[Arthur]

'Other' is an adjective. Why is the noun it describes omitted? My own suspicion is it's another mutilation of language and meaning inflicted by political correctness. Vomit-inducing.

In similar vein (discarded noun) is the idiocy of calling an external HDD just an "external", as in "I saved the file on my external". Groan.

 

[Ockie]

hahahahhaha ....imagine calling blu that in public

Ja well...when I read that post of hers another word popped into my head...but be that as it may. It is Friday....nie lus vir k@k nie.

 

[I.am.Sam]

Ja well...when I read that post of hers another word popped into my head...but be that as it may. It is Friday....nie lus vir k@k nie.

YOLO

 

[Ninja'd]

On the other hand I had an issue whenever an ex called me her man.


Dis my man daai.
Bly weg van my man af.
Ek en my man gaan uit.


I think she might have forgotten my name.

 

[azbob]

On the other hand I had an issue whenever an ex called me her man.


Dis my man daai.
Bly weg van my man af.
Ek en my man gaan uit.


I think she might have forgotten my name.

Ninja'd dates afrikaanse pratende meisies!? Onbeskof!

 

[Alton Turner Blackwood]

On the other hand I had an issue whenever an ex called me her man.


Dis my man daai.
Bly weg van my man af.
Ek en my man gaan uit.


I think she might have forgotten my name.

I think using the word "man" induces some sort of euphoria amongst coloured girls. Happened to me too.

 

[Ockie]

On the other hand I had an issue whenever an ex called me her man.


Dis my man daai.
Bly weg van my man af.
Ek en my man gaan uit.


I think she might have forgotten my name.

hahaha.

My ouma en oupa het makaar altyd pappa en mamma genoem. Altyd as ons by hulle kuier my ouma wat in die garage waar my oupa in werk skree "Pappa....soek jy kofffffffieeeeee?????" hahaha.

I suppose it originated from when their kids were still living at home and they just took to calling each other that?

So be glad your wife aint calling you Pappa or Daddy lol