外国人的昵称都好奇葩啊,雷死我了哈哈
What do you call your partner - darling, sweetheart, babe? I have been called a little owl, a swan and even a “panda-fish.” No, I’m not a supernatural, shape-shifting creature or a character in a children’s storybook. I’ve just been in a few relationships where cutesy, affectionate nicknames emerged as inside jokes. Turns out, there are many more inventive terms of endearment used around the world, including 'egg with eyes', 'my little cabbage' and 'cute nose'. Plenty of my friends have developed nicknames with their romantic partners. I asked the question on Facebook and got a broad assortment of answers: former boyfriends who knew each other as “Tiger and Teddy.” An American man who dated a Chinese woman told me he called her “Popo,”,which means “wife” or “broken broken,” depending on your intonation – and she called him “Benben,” which he says means something like “dumb dumb,” referring to his lackluster mastery of the Chinese language at the time. There seem to be a variety of languages with pet names, too. According to the website of the popular language-learning software Rosetta Stone, the French say “Mon Petit Chou” (my little cabbage or cream puff), the Russians say “Vishenka” (cherry), the Dutch call girlfriends “Dropje” (candy) and in Brazil you can say “Meu Chuchu,” where “chuchu” is a vegetable. In Spain I heard the term “Media Naranja,” meaning half-orange, suggesting that the romantic partners are two halves of the whole. So we decided to illustrate some of our favourites. 1 My Little Cabbage - French 2 Breadcrumb - Finnish 3 My Little Bug - Hungarian 4 Mousebear - German 5 My Gold Nugget - Danish 6 Little Chip - Dutch 7 My Little Microbe - Italian 8 Fruit Of My Heart - Indonesian 9 My Little Round Thing - Flemish 10 Half An Orange - Spanish 11 Little Elephant - Thai 12 Egg With Eyes - Japanese 13 Cute Nose - Swedish 14 My Little Chicken - Arabic 15 My Little Eyes - Greek Is there any science behind using pet names? Is it a mark of a healthy relationship, or unhealthy? Are couples who give each other names, ranging from the generic “Honey” and “Sweetie” to the creative “Loopy Lop,” more likely to stay together? And in our digital age, are these nicknames any more important? |