Are you someone’s Mom, or are you a “ma-a-h-h-m�
That is to say: are you the addressee of a specific form of respectful greeting from one or more people you actually gave birth to (someone who would have been called “Mother†some generations back), or are you a member of that social and political category most bleatingly invoked by Sarah Palin in 2008 (“Ho-o-ckey Ma-a-h-h-mâ€), and that now has taken on a permanently nasal-inflected life of its own?
Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/07/we-need...z25zTJ8U9q
That is to say: are you the addressee of a specific form of respectful greeting from one or more people you actually gave birth to (someone who would have been called “Mother†some generations back), or are you a member of that social and political category most bleatingly invoked by Sarah Palin in 2008 (“Ho-o-ckey Ma-a-h-h-mâ€), and that now has taken on a permanently nasal-inflected life of its own?
Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2012/09/07/we-need...z25zTJ8U9q