> she still calls my parents “Mr. __ and Mrs. __” because there’s literally no English equivalent to the polite title you’d use in Bangla to address your in law

> she still calls my parents “Mr. __ and Mrs. __” because there’s literally no English equivalent to the polite title you’d use in Bangla to address your in laws. Use a transliterated version of the Bangla term, it's what my children do when they refer to my parents. In Swedish they'd be "farfar" and "farmor" but they call them "opa" and "oma", these being the Swedish and Dutch words for "grandfather" and "grandmother". The Swedish is more precise since it indicates from which side those grandparents come - handy for genealogists since it can be built up ("farmormor's farfarsmor" is "father's mother's mother's father's father's mother"). Anyway, I was going to remark on the the difference between a Bosnian muslim, A Turkish Sufi (who I consider to be a muslim), a Saudi Hanbiliyya, Iranian Shia and Syrian Ahmadiyya (still a muslim) but never mind. We all refer to people in groups when expedient, usually with benign intent.