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There's no need to push grievances over the "decline of marriage" when the reason that people in the US can't name all four grandparents is because they've spen
by kibwen 2y ago
There's no need to push grievances over the "decline of marriage" when the reason that people in the US can't name all four grandparents is because they've spent their whole lives knowing them as "grandma" and "grandpa", and additionally because it's quite likely that at least one of their grandparents will have died before they've gotten old enough to form memories.
- emmelaich 2y agoI didn't read it as a grievance. A grievance would be weird. A lament perhaps.
- deepburner 2y agoDid you really think "they just call them grandma/pa" was a good argument against people not knowing their grandparents' names? What do you think people in other parts of the world call their grandparents?
- TeMPOraL 2y agoI spent 30 years being wrong about my grandmom's given name, because my granddad called her by other name than the official one[0], and in all those decades there was hardly an opportunity for me to notice or for someone to correct me. Grandma was always "grandma". -- [0] - Anna vs. Hanna. Close enough to be ambiguous in speech.