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| posted by migao 456 days ago |
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Got a tiny little problem, 1st DH in HK starting soon, had a couple before but in Mainland, there it was simple that we called them ayi and they called us back X xiansheng and X taitai. I feel a bit troubled how to do it with the SE Asian maid, should she call me Mr and my wife Mrs, and should we call her Amah? Or should we use 1st names instead? How you guys do it?
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| posted by Load Toad 456 days ago |
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What's wrong with using the first name. You could call her Ma'am if you feel the need to act subservient - or Nursey if it's a more public school bed-wetting issue you have,
You used to speak the truth.
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| posted by Yip ling 456 days ago |
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When we were young, the maids in the house were called by their one single name and add " Jair " at the end. meaning sister.
ie. yip ling will be called ling-Jair.
Our Phillipino helpers are called by their names simply Rosa, maria etc,
I think in mainland they are called ayi, meaning auntie.
Where about is your SE Asian maid from exactly?
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| posted by Load Toad 456 days ago |
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I think the ending is Jia int it for sister?
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| posted by migao 456 days ago |
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Ah yeah, jair jair (jie jie) is a good one for the kids to use.... and I agree LT, nothing wrong to be on 1st name basis for the adults. Ours will be Filipina, speaking good English... perhaps there's a good takalog word to use...
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| posted by Load Toad 456 days ago |
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quote:
English term:
Madam
Tagalog translation:
n. ale; ginang; binibini
You can call her 'Ale' - how f**king brilliant is that?
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| posted by shazza 456 days ago |
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Nothing wrong with calling each other by first name, 10 times nicer than someone calling you ma'am or sir if you ask me!!!
For the kids, they can call her auntie whatever to show a bit more respect.
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| posted by Yip ling 456 days ago |
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LT, guess yours is mandarin pron. 'Jair' is Cantonese, more emph. on the -- air'
Besides, Mig. it is much more friendly to find out the ayi's surname, for yip ling, it would be nice to be called Yip-ayi, for future reference.
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| posted by Yip ling 456 days ago |
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Originally posted by Load Toad
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English term:
Madam
Tagalog translation:
n. ale; ginang; binibini
You can call her 'Ale' - how f**king brilliant is that?
Hee hee, Ginang sounds very rude in Mandarin. Do you agree Shazza ?
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| posted by shazza 456 days ago |
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Now tell me what the hell is "Cantofreaks"?
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| posted by meandhk 455 days ago |
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Clear and Simple:
Maid= Ist Name
Employer = Mr and Mrs/ Sir or Madam or As what you want to be called by your employee!
I wanna know
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| posted by smog 455 days ago (edited 455 days ago) |
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My (part-time) DH and I address each other by our first names - the same way as I would address anyone else that I work or socialise with.
(Except, of course, for spunky, who will always be spunky to me)
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| posted by Le Coq au Toque Blanche 455 days ago |
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if they call me Sir, they get each time HK$ 10 deducted from salary, we are in a home enviro and i dont want to be called Sir all the time and its vice versa
Kuckeleckuuuuuuu
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| posted by geraldo 455 days ago |
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you got a guy as DH ?
strange tomato
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| posted by Mango 455 days ago (edited 455 days ago) |
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Just call her AJI
almost always friendly and polite
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| posted by smog 455 days ago |
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Originally posted by smog
My (part-time) DH and I address each other by our first names
Having said that, Mrs smog calls my DH "ate" (big sister) for cultural reasons. My DH calls Mrs smog by her first name.
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| posted by seb 454 days ago |
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Originally posted by shazza
That site is in Korean.
I means that the search for "cantofreaks" did not return any results.
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| posted by shazza 454 days ago |
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Originally posted by seb
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Originally posted by shazza
That site is in Korean.
I means that the search for "cantofreaks" did not return any results.
and that also means you are migao too eh?
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