Talk:Term of endearment

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Contents 1 Regional differences 2 Brian Peppers uses terms of endearment 3 Separate list page 4 Citation needed? 5 3rd paragraph of Usage

[edit] Regional differences

I think this article would be informative if it listed regional differences in terms of endearment commonly used. For example, I've notices British English speakers are more likely to use "love" than Americans (I personally am most likely to say "honey" or "hun"). Also, I've heard people in a Cockney dialect use "ducks" or "ducky", which I'd've never thought to use. I think this would be an interesting article topic, but there's no way I could do it myself. Any thoughts? Garnet avi 05:40, 11 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree, but I don't know enough about these differences to write about them. Jakarr 21:55, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Brian Peppers uses terms of endearment

doesn't he? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Audacity Anxiety (talk • contribs) 16:44, 20 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Separate list page

I created a separate page to list examples: list of terms of endearment. So far, it only has the terms from this article. If we remove the examples section (or replace it with something more succinct) and place a link to the new list, I think this article will be less cluttered. Jakarr 06:26, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Citation needed?

In the article there is a line: "Some words are clearly derived from each other, such as "sweetheart" and "sweetie", while others bear no etymological resemblance, such as "baby" and "cutie".^{[citation needed]}". It says "citation needed". How the heck does that need a citation? I mean, I know there's a wikipedia policy about first-person research, but I'm sure there's also something in there about indisputable common knowledge (and self-evident from the statement to boot). This sentence falls under that. I'm removing the "citation needed" because I think it's ridiculous, but feel free to discuss it here if you feel otherwise. But please, explain why that needs a reference before you ask for one that's too perplexing to contemplate. Garnet avi (talk) 07:53, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] 3rd paragraph of Usage

Does anybody understand this paragraph? It sounds a bit too esoteric & spiritual for my liking... 143.167.25.226 (talk) 15:29, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

It was pure vandalism crap. I didn't notice that vandal 70.121.104.113 had re-added it yet again... AnonMoos (talk)