I was going to say maybe it’s because I’m not Dominican, but he has 4 brothers who all call their wives by their names too. One of them sometimes calls his Rubia.
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Calling Someone Amor
I was going to say maybe it’s because I’m not Dominican, but he has 4 brothers who all call their wives by their names too. One of them sometimes calls his Rubia.
I say it all the time to women I live around and vice versa. Kind a like calling someone "sweetheart" back home 25 years ago.
I will also use it if I have to interrupt a conversation when a female is speaking "permiso mi amor" which is very rare.
I will also use it if I have to interrupt a conversation when a female is speaking "permiso mi amor" which is very rare.
Maybe it is just me, but I prefer my spouse to call me by my name and I do the same. In social settings when someone will say "mi amor" at times comes off as condescending depending on who is saying it. The only time I hear my spouse call me by another name is when he is speaking with someone, and I will hear him say "Let me check with mi jefa".
Rethinking the ways I call my better half, she probably doesn't mind what I call her, as long as I don't call her late for... margaritas or Mai Tai.
Dominicans use "names" such as mi gorda/gordo, mi flaca/flaco, mi negra/negro, mi vieja/viejo, which are meant to be endearing terms.
Here in small town British Columbia, older men will sometimes call me 'dear' when out and about. I think it's sweet and cute!
In many Latin cultures, using someone's first name is a sign they're in trouble or some serious talk needs to happen. I don't recall my Colombian bf EVER using my proper name. Always a nickname or term of endearment. Come to think of it, does he actually KNOW my name????? Hmmmmmmm....
I'm the last of the Dumb-minicans: born and raised en la Tierra Santa de Salvaleón de Higüey, La Altagracia province.
It's not uncommon to have women refer to us as mi amor, cariño, mi rey...
At the bank, school, store, government office, etc...: "¿En qué te puedo ayudar, mi amor?"
Really? So then I should take "tipo casi muerto" as a compliment?
Of course you should...it is simply descriptive and put in a nice way.
Sucio feo viejo hombre is not a complement.
But I get that at least once week.
The lady who cleans my house calls me "mi negro" and "principe".
Yes, my little nieces and nephews, little kids I know in campo. Toddlers to maybe 6.
My wife always call me "Te Amor mi vida siempre con dios" my heat melt
I find it wonderfully refreshing that people here call other people by endearing names that in other countries may bring a fine or prison. My cocinera calls her husband Mi Negro . Where else can you get away with calling a friend Gordito or Negrito . I am of a generation that still uses the words My Dear or My Dear Lady or Old Chap and I have no thought of changing either here or elsewhere and no matter if it be in English or Spanish or French .
I've been called mi negro on occasion, but I was confused by this term because I'm not "negro". However, more often or not it's mi amor or amor mio. I was enamored by these terms as most tourists would be, but now not so sure...I feel like its real significance is no longer...so sad!