• Honytawk@feddit.nl
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    13 hours ago

    Because those words are not just for children.

    Like early-adopters is about new technology. And fostering can be about pride.

    But mom and dad is only in relation to a child in a family. Never a pet.

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      11 hours ago

      Never a pet? Isn’t the thing that they were annoyed about, that it always happens with pets?

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      11 hours ago

      Father of invention

      Mother of dragons

      Freud is regarded as the “father of psychiatry” and Aristotle as the “father of biology.” Plenty of people who invented or had significant contributions to their field are considered “father/mother”

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      13 hours ago

      Good point. What if the word was mother or father instead of mom and dad? There are definitely more generalized uses of that, like fatherland or mother nature.