What could be more normal, more unremarkable than the common endearments English-speaking Americans use to address their romantic counterparts?
It is a common Brazilian endearment that is as far from the explosive "nigger" as can be imagined, something like "sweetie".
Addressing them with a common term of endearment, chiquillos, Sepúlveda said, "In other words, kids, even if we're super-optimistic about things, the best you can say is we're in deep shit.
However, with youths in Mexico compa has become a common term of endearment between friends, perhaps best translated as homie, mate, or bud.
He doesn't mind being called a "dirty Arab"—it's his most common term of endearment, he says but he balks at the idea of having his face covered during sex.
He has tried to explain English prepositions ("Why is it bacon, egg, and cheese on a roll, if the ingredients are inside the roll?"); the meaning of the phrase "That's what she said"; and why a common Brazilian text message of endearment — "bjs" — might mean something else if sent to a New Yorker via Tinder.
They frequently call each other 'baby', which could be a habit of their 38-year-old marriage, though it is an endearment I know is common to the people of New Orleans, where for eight years Kristina was director of city planning.
Ms. Allison has high-minded aspirations as a writer, but the stage adaptation has less in common with literary sagas like Larry McMurtry's "Terms of Endearment" or "Lonesome Dove" than it does with pop fiction by the likes of Rebecca Wells, Terry McMillan and Wally Lamb.
Most geeks are adept with computers...These are people who did not go to their high school proms, and many would be offended by the suggestion that they should have even wanted to". The Jargon File shows how "geek" evolved from an insult into a term of endearment used by these "losers" and "nerds". Over time, this common ground provided the setting for the creation of a new culture.
To underline Common's most ardent songs, a singer named Bilal, whose album is due later this year, came out to belt endearments in ardent, swooping melismas that sometimes went astray.
It became our endearment.
