Remmy?

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When my Deaf friends text me they shorten "remember" to "remmy". Anyone know where that got started?
 
Picked it up from a friend in N.C.....dunno where it origiated tho'....
 
Dunno, I've only heard it once before this. I'll have to do some research. (cuz the English language fascinates me)
 
So... A quick look into Urban Dictionary (a website that explains modern slang) shows that, in Deaf culture, it's a shortened version of remember, but... Outside Deaf culture... Its meaning isn't very nice. But there's not really any indicator of where it started.
 
It's interesting to me because taking "remember" and getting "remmy" strikes me as something a hearing culture would do. From a culture not based on oral communication, I'd expect something more like rmbr (A friend of mine expressed this too - I don't want to steal her ideas.)

I don't know if that makes sense or not, but for people who mainly speak and hear, to take a word and shorten it to something that sounds sort of like the original but is easier to say (and the speaking habit of changing things to a more casual form, which can involve tacking a "y" onto the end) isn't surprising to me. But how that would develop out of Deaf Culture kind of blows my mind.

When I force myself to really look at how we (hearies) talk, unless you're speaking really slowly and formally, remember kind of gets mashed into something like "memer". So it's different, and that's not odd for two different cultures to develop different variations in an overlapping language, but my brain still gets stuck when I try to think of how "remmy" might have happened.
 
That's an interesting way to look at it, Amylynne. Looking at the way my roommate talks, you're absolutely right, it really is something you'd expect from a hearie. I'm not sure if I do that, though. I'm a fairly articulate person. But yeah. I definitely get what you're saying.
 
Cdodd said:
That's an interesting way to look at it, Amylynne. Looking at the way my roommate talks, you're absolutely right, it really is something you'd expect from a hearie. I'm not sure if I do that, though. I'm a fairly articulate person. But yeah. I definitely get what you're saying.
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I have dealt with a hearing loss for many years but live in the hearing community. I had NEVER encountered "remmy" before coming to this forum.

Also, new to me from here are "deafie" "hearie" which seem downright insulting to me. But, I am told that they are intended as something like say a term of endearment????????????
 
Jane B. said:
I have dealt with a hearing loss for many years but live in the hearing community. I had NEVER encountered "remmy" before coming to this forum.

Also, new to me from here are "deafie" hearie" which seem downright insulting to me. But, I am told that they are intended as something like say a term of endearment????????????
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Depends on the context. It offended me at first. Now it's just something I accept. :)
 
Jane B. said:
I have dealt with a hearing loss for many years but live in the hearing community. I had NEVER encountered "remmy" before coming to this forum.

Also, new to me from here are "deafie" "hearie" which seem downright insulting to me. But, I am told that they are intended as something like say a term of endearment????????????
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Cdodd said:
Depends on the context. It offended me at first. Now it's just something I accept. :)
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I am still having trouble with them. It may will be because this forum is the ONLY place that I see or hear them.
 
I can't remmy where I first saw remmy. :giggle:
 
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First time I saw "remmy" is at FSDB. If you guys never heard of Remmy, deafie, hearie before you came here, you obviously have not been around a group Deaf people IRL. It is very commonly used among the Deaf folks.
 
Babyblue said:
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First time I saw "remmy" is at FSDB. If you guys never heard of Remmy, deafie, hearie before you came here, you obviously have not been around a group Deaf people IRL. It is very commonly used among the Deaf folks.
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No wonder that I've not been welcomed very often into Deaf groups. I had no idea remmy existed!!
 
Well, I don't remember where "Remmy" came from originated. In a Deaf world, we use that expression of passionate remembrance of past tense. It is an expression sign even in typing the word out. I have seen a lot of Remmy a lot which seem to be easier than saying remember. Remmy sound like childish but easy to understand that they were thinking of the past in their Deaf world or struggle in hearing world. It is just like the hearing students using shorthand for text on their mobile phone. ;)
 
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