Re:WhatsApp risks losing its most loyal customers: Indian un...
by zem on Thursday January 21, 2021 @06:36AM
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I'm in my 40s, and my generation definitely has a derogatory sense of the term "uncles and aunties" - specifically an older generation of Indians who think it their right to be nosy and judgemental (and oftentimes even interfering) when it comes to the next generation's affairs.
(in addition to the other usages msravi noted)
Re:WhatsApp risks losing its most loyal customers: Indian un...
by valarauko on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:19AM
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I'm in my 30s, and have been called that term online (in a sense akin to "OK Boomer")
Re:WhatsApp risks losing its most loyal customers: Indian un...
by spacemansam on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:37AM
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Same here, though in my case i assume it's mock (hopefully?) insult in a few Indian Telegram groups where I'm the oldest member by about 2 decades. "Unkill" is the phrasing and "boomer" is most assuredly the implication.
Re:WhatsApp risks losing its most loyal customers: Indian un...
by valarauko on Thursday January 21, 2021 @12:59PM
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"Unkill" was largely a Reddit India creation, where it runs rampant. Sounds like it has escaped the confines of Reddit and run amok.
Re:WhatsApp risks losing its most loyal customers: Indian un...
by signal11 on Friday January 22, 2021 @04:12AM
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I suspect it depends upon context. Uncle and Aunty are an inherently respectful term, it’s just that kids do also use it ironically, reversing the meaning.
There are other words used like that, eg “mate”, which can be used in a friendly/neutral or menacing way.
(As a side note - I notice that Kamala Harris’s Twitter Bio currently includes “Auntie”.)
I hadn't personally encountered the 2(b) form you reference. When I was a kid, even an implied taunting of the older generation was forbidden, treated as stepping out of the bounds of social protocol, and would get you punished by your own parents or family if observed.
Even now, as an adult, I would feel strongly compelled to stop myself from using the 2(b) variant you just referenced. It feels taboo.
Maybe things have evolved a bit since I left India, which I admit was quite a while back. I wonder if my grandmother might lament this change as a deterioration of values in the younger generations :) "The kids have no respect these days".