If you do not feel comfortable calling your stepparent "mom" or "dad", use his or her first name or establish a nickname but do not use "hey you" or anything else like that when you want their attention.
Still, she ran into trouble when she started using "Hey Jude".
What does her daughter think of her Twitter use? "Hey, I'm not the parent who wrote, 'Twitter makes you stupid: discuss'!" Keller joked, referring to an article her husband, Bill, wrote when he was executive editor of The Times, adding: "She says she doesn't care what I write on Twitter.
If a presupposition P is not in the common ground at the time of utterance, the hearer can legitimately challenge the speaker by using "Hey, wait a minute!
Speak this command, and your dog's name, using "Hey" to get his attention if needed.
If you did message/ IM her, just say that you have to get off to go do something, use "hey, I'll talk to you later because I have to go and get something done.
As no vampires were available for study, leeches were used instead (hey, if pigs are a good enough approximation for humans…).
