Why does Meggie keep calling her dad by his first name? She's not Bart Simpson, it's not funny or cute - it's really annoying and makes me want to give her a smack.
I think somebody's had tee many martoonies!
I call my mum by her first name lol but I do it just to annoy her and it gets her attention quicker .
Maybe he doesnt like being called dad. .
This Frogger's got friends on the other side!
I know - that really bugged me too
shareBecause in the book, she calls him that. Some people just call their parents by their first name.
share"Which made Mo teak her nose. Mo. Meggie had never called her father anything else."
Page 8, Inkheart
I always thought that was cute.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly
I really enjoyed it in the book....she switches in the movie which bugs me...
"It's not about right. It's not about wrong. It's about power."
I know from personal experience, when you grow up and only child and with only one parent, you tend to start calling your parent whatever you hear other people calling him. With out her mom to say, "Go ask Dad" or "Go tell Dad", she probably just started calling him Mo and never stopped.
"Au Revoir, Shoshanna!"
His full name is Mortimor, so at least she's not calling him that. Perhaps part of it can be explained by the abscence of a mother who would have likely corrected her if she called him anything other than dad. Just a thought.
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Permission to hug?! - Abby
You never have to ask. - Gibbs
Why not? My daughter calls me by my first name and I never asked her why.
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