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...Unless that Nu Gui somehow got glommed up into Shelly's brain. (She does look dangerously like how Senior Director Brandilyn Oduya looked when the Nu Gui was "in charge".)

Another odd observation: what if May wasn't lying to M?

Think about that for a second. We think it's cray-cray that Shelly and Tina are related; what if M and Jin are related?

Of course, that lays out the Final Battle of Wapsi Square: Bia vs. Mayahuel in the Royal Rumble.

jwhouk wrote:Another odd observation: what if May wasn't lying to M?

Think about that for a second. We think it's cray-cray that Shelly and Tina are related; what if M and Jin are related?

Of course, that lays out the Final Battle of Wapsi Square: Bia vs. Mayahuel in the Royal Rumble.

Hmmm. Wouldn't that imply that Mayahuel must have borne a son or daughter, when she was (1) thoroughly trapped in the Demon Realm, and (2) already a golem?

The last time Mayahuel was biologically human was a long time ago... long enough that any normal path of ancestry leading to Monica from back then would be so long that the relationship would be thoroughly diluted. She'd be equally the ancestor of a good fraction of the humans alive today, via numerous paths of descent.

Granted, somebody could have been playing games with the timelines to make it possible, but I don't see evidence for that so far...

Shelly really is looking good.Shes gone from Tom-boy to Hot Babe...with attitude. Could you imagine that "snack": "G'Ma, are you gonna eat that?" "No dear, You take it. I'm in the mood for Sweetbreads."
I also noticed how Shelly refers to Phix as G'ma to Monica calling her Grandfather "G'Pa". Is this a Minnesota thing? I would hate to think Shelly is making fun of Monica by being all haughty.

TheDOCTOR wrote:I also noticed how Shelly refers to Phix as G'ma to Monica calling her Grandfather "G'Pa". Is this a Minnesota thing? I would hate to think Shelly is making fun of Monica by being all haughty.

I would think it is a Western US thing. The Comanche Nation is in eastern New Mexico, southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, western Oklahoma, and most of northwest Texas and Monica's G'Pa might have been from one of those areas.

The German for Grandfather/mother is Opa and Oma. I suspect the Nordic versions are something similar, and likely common among the Scandinavian heritage folks of the upper Midwest.

Atomic wrote:The German for Grandfather/mother is Opa and Oma. I suspect the Nordic versions are something similar, and likely common among the Scandinavian heritage folks of the upper Midwest.

If I recall properly, the Scandinavian term for a matron aunt who won't stop hugging is "Ufda", right? or is that "Ahuah"?

I dunno, I'm from the right side of the Mississippi.

Dave wrote:

Atomic wrote:The German for Grandfather/mother is Opa and Oma. I suspect the Nordic versions are something similar, and likely common among the Scandinavian heritage folks of the upper Midwest.

If I recall properly, the Scandinavian term for a matron aunt who won't stop hugging is "Ufda", right? or is that "Ahuah"?

Arrrg is closer. Ufda is the swedish "Why Me". Like Oy Vey in yiddish. It's a useful saying to use when you can't swear as much as you'd like. lol.

jwhouk wrote:I dunno, I'm from the right side of the Mississippi.

Are you implying that there's a wrong side?

I don't have my Comanche language dictionary handy, but what one would call one's grandparents depends on whether they're your Mother's parents, or Father's. Ma's mom was "Ka-Koo" with the "K" sounding close to "G" as in "Great Big Globs Of Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts." Dad's mom would have been called whatever the word would be in Arapaho, but Pop wasn't raised with a whole lot of his Choctaw or Arapaho ways, due to the struggles his folks went through in their youths. Us four kids were brought up with a mix of Kiowa and Comanche traditions, and some of the words we do know, we're not really sure which tribe they come from.

Meanwhile, my youngest nephew used to call Ma "G-Ma", so Moni's "G'Pa" isn't unheard of.

I don't know if it's been addressed before, but I've always wondered: are they saying it with a hard 'G' (Guh'Ma, Guh'Pa), or a soft 'G' (Gee-Ma, Gee-Pa)?

Id guess the soft.

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Maggie and Natalie call Kate "Ganga".