Kate & The Middletons

[Tabbytiger122]

I am currently reading Russsll Myers Catherine & William. Enjoying it but one thing that stands out is how the Middletons have never put a foot wrong.
Carole was not from an aristocratic background nor was Michael but they raised their kids not to put a step wrong. Kate also had embarrassing family members (Uncle Gary) but she still invited him to the wedding which was the right thing to do & it nipped the media scandal in the bud & took the wind out of any sails.. Meghan invited none of her extended family or her dad & it caused massive media speculation.
Kate was born for royal life & is a natural. Very proud of our future queen. Her parents did an amazing job.

Thanks for explaining the acronym. I thought she was referring to ravens ( caw, caw) and that it was a sweet nod to the presence of Celtic mythology in Wales. Or possibly the Tower of London, which has been cropping up online quote a bit in relation to Harry.

I think it was an allusion to corvids.

I absolutely love corvids though (hoping to get adopted by the local ravens some day) so I wouldn’t find CAWvids offensive.

But it's ok for you to criticise while describing Catherine's cancer as " complicated " ?

I too love corvids.

I am known to them.

They follow me. I am the craw wumman.

(all corvids are welcome - not just craws)

You would think so, but seems not.

”Let” as a suffix means diminutive in size.

What does VID mean exactly? It does sound unpleasant as the only word of ending in Vid that comes to mind is a nasty disease.

are you asking me? if so I have no clue.

the use of Ham/hamlets /markle is not used with affection, I see posts where Meghan is referred to as Markle. just childish and rude.
but then I have seen Catherine being called princess Catherine(never middleton though)

Affection or not, all have been called all sorts of things here.

Catherine in particular has been described as having had a “complicated narrative” with respect to her cancer diagnosis.

If you missed all of that, you may think “Cawvids” is as benign as “Hamlets” but I think you’d be way off the mark.

The wide eyed innocence of claiming Hamlet as an affectionate diminutive is amusing to say the least!

The "rule" is you can call Harry and Meghan any horrible name you want. If you do the same to William and Catherine you are vile and trashing them.
The option of not calling anyone any names never seems to occur.

To be fair, it makes more sense than cawvids.

And it isn’t nasty or derogatory - merely a play on their mum and dad using initials when talking about eachother.

It will be sweet to some and perplexing to others. But it isn’t nasty in my opinion.

I’ve seen a lot worse said about the children to be honest. That’s the shameful thing.

So true

I have not described it as affectionate but it’s also not pejorative. We can’t pretend like calling children a name so close to Covid is anything but, though.

I would never use a negative term to describe any of these children and I don’t find Hamlet problematic. There is nothing negative implicit in it. I might use it, in the very rare instances I refer to the children.

Like many terms used here, it’s often necessary to know something about the character using the phrase in order to divine their intent. At that point it generally becomes rather obvious.

Cute

Since you seem to have coined the term perhaps you can explain why you chose the suffix.

I’ll not wait.

I didn’t coin the term Hamlet-sorry. Not sure who did.

It was quite clear I meant the other one.

Oh, sorry. Did you mean Cawvid? No reference to Covid was intended-a reference to Corvid was. Nothing wrong with crows.

But you did coin cawvids?

If Hamlets is an affectionate diminutive of HAM with no unpleasantness intended, then I don’t see what’s objectionable about CAW and Cawvids. Personally, I think involving the children at all is very objectionable.

But it's ok to have a go at someone's cancer?

You find involving children objectionable so made up a term of your own to use when involving children.

To counter behaviour you find objectionable.

Maybe it will catch on.

Oh surely not? Who has done that?

Wow defending calling children names? You should be ashamed of yourself.

No. I invented the term to point out how unpleasant using oh so witty terms for children is. I have no intention of using it again. Unlike the Hamlet brigade.