This is like how obnoxious it always feels when people say things are "as American as mom and apple pie" (two concepts neither invented in nor unique to America)https://twitter.com/BootlegGirl/status/1259342009938182145 …
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Edible apples were brought to North America from Europe ffs And how do you think the entire rest of the world doesn't have *moms*
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What is different about a "mom" than a "mother" that that sentence makes sense to you
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"Mother" is more formal (and perhaps more reserved); "Mom" is more intimate and affectionate.
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But that's English Being Weird, not a definitional difference. As I once explained to my children about "bottom", "butt", and "ass", they all mean the same thing but people are going to react to them very differently. Because English is weird.
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Pardon the language geekery, since you were clearly making a very different point.
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Yeah, I should have expanded and read the whole thing for context, y'know, *before* I started to answer. I could blame the way Twitter displays these things, but honestly I should know better by now.
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Even then, the other points are still quite clear. And someone browsing the replies might get a charge from that fact.
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Okay look in the future I think you can take it for granted that I understand what the word "mom" literally means
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