Post #510385
2024-08-19 21:28 UTC
Replies (20)
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@lalah@sakurajima.moe 2024-08-19 22:58
@considermycat going to add this to my vocabulary
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@davidfetter@kolektiva.social 2024-08-20 07:35
@considermycat this is possibly cooler than learning it came from Yiddish. Maybe.
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@mina@berlin.social 2024-08-20 08:06
@considermycat I've always known people from the Philippines as being very smart and creative. Seems, like they truly are.
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@monsoonrains@mastodon.social 2024-08-20 08:56
@considermycat Love it.
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@montins@xarxa.cloud 2024-08-20 09:06
@considermycat Love it!
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@pedestrians1st@mastodon.online 2024-08-20 09:20
@considermycat Perhaps we need to end this age of subservience and scrap madam, sir and mamsir altogether.
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@hazelnot@sunbeam.city 2024-08-20 10:27
@considermycat TIL about Philippine English
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@internetsdairy@mastodon.art 2024-08-20 10:35
@considermycat "Mamsir, this is a Wendy's." Yep, works well!
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@lp0_on_fire@social.linux.pizza 2024-08-20 10:38
@considermycat, looks like “mothersir” to me, which kind of… fails.
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@dazzlepansy@glammr.us 2024-08-20 12:14
@considermycat We could also just do away with all the servile bowing and scraping. One of the more alienating things when I moved to the US is the way everyone calls you sir or ma'am like you're the landed gentry in a feudal state.
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@WmShakesp3are@mastodon.social 2024-08-20 16:14
@considermycat as opposed to Hebrew “mamser” (momser/momzer) which has a decidedly different meaning.
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@enthraxxx@h4.io 2024-08-20 19:05
@considermycat I encountered the expression or one very similar in the Indian film Santosh, not too long ago. It's really cool how language evolves, and being able to see it "live".
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@Digitalyn@mastodon.xyz 2025-12-27 01:33
@considermycat I love this. Reminds me that as a kid, I was mixing my parents names as "MOMDAD".
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@Atirut@toot.community 2025-12-27 08:47
@considermycat i wonder if they're upstream this 🤔
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@navi@catcatnya.com 2025-12-27 10:45
@considermycat my criticism remains that it is clinging to the binary by using "both", but it is better than picking one option for sure
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@mynameistillian@plush.city 2025-12-27 10:45
@considermycat REAL BIGENDER HOURS LET'S GOOO
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@Korawolfsrain@meow.social 2025-12-27 14:16
@considermycat for me that hits way too close to mamsell (don't know the accurate writing) which is i think used in france for a madam? Or madam of the house? I only know it from the movies
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@valerie@flipping.rocks 2025-12-27 14:49
@considermycat @gendercensus Yes they have! And I've been trying to get more people to use it for the past decade. Unfortunately it still hasn't become popular enough to make it into the gender survey.
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@guamwatt@infosec.exchange 2025-12-27 16:35
@considermycat Or they are former U S Navy and answer the phone with How may I help MamSirOrChief?
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@youronlyone@c.im 2025-12-27 18:08
It's actually more accurately written as "mamser". That's how we differentiate between "mamser" and "ma'am/sir". Although in practice, no one really cares because mamser ma'am/sir is used in the Philippines as the English equivalent for our genderless and gender-neutral labels and pronouns like "sila", "nila", "kayo". It is __not__ referring to the person's gender. Context is important. Cultural context most especially. 😉 @considermycat