In our household, calling just the name of someone out of sight means “Respond to initiate conversation”.
In our household, calling just the name of someone out of sight means “Come to me”.
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This problem has cropped up sometimes with my wife and me, lately today when my wife called my name, I responded, she called out my name again, I responded again, she then shouted “Why don’t you come?”, I then came to her and helped her wrestle a balcony umbrella that threatened to come adrift in a wind.
Household communications protocol when out of sight that I grew up with
To initiate a conversation
“$NAME”
“Here”/similar response
To make someone come to help, come to dinner etc
“$NAME”
“Here”/similar response
“Come to me”/“Help me”/“Come to dinner” etc.
To make someone come, short protocol
“$NAME, come help me”, or similar as appropriate
Household communications protocol when out of sight of my wife
To initiate a conversation
“$NAME”
To make someone come to help, come to dinner etc.
“$NAME”
Just out of sight is an important qualifier for my response. If I’m on the other side of the house, two or more rooms away, I’m not about to start a conversation by shouting back.
There are also certain contexts or intonations that mean “come here”.
In particular, if my name is called more than once that means “come here”.
Other. For one thing, it can mean “where are you?” which isn’t one of the options.
I would say a) it depends on tone of voice and b) depending on tone of voice is iffy, if you mean anything other than ‘respond so I know where you are and that you can hear me’ it’s a good idea to say so.
“enipla, we have a leak”
“Sigh, ok I’ll look at it later.”
“No you should look at it now.”
Turns out the drain on our up stairs shower had fallen completely off and took out the drywall ceiling downstairs. As in ceiling collapsed to the floor. Flooded our wood flooring as well.
“ENIPLA!!!” will get me running. Day or night.
“enipla we have a leak” is just another day.
There’s a tone I recognize that means ‘come here now’. My wife seems to understand that in my voice too. Calling our kids names usually results in no response, even when they are here. My best friend Duke will come if I call his name or whistle unless he thinks his brother Sami will take his spot if he leaves. Calling Sami’s name works about as well as calling a tree’s name.
I live alone and don’t have occasion to call the names of others, but when I was a kid growing up, I don’t believe my parents and I ever just called out one another’s names. At the very least it’d be something like “hey [name]” which was understood to be conversation prompt as opposed to a summons.
But, I’ve been taught and always do, go to whomever calls me or at least look in their direction when called.
When I worked at OfficeMax, when one of my co-workers would say “Umm”, I automatically respond since it was usually followed by my name. She started calling me “Umm” instead of my name. Hey, it’s better than “HEY STUPID!”. LOL!
My Mom would call out all of the children’s names (there are four of us), especially when she was mad. Whomever was called last was the one she was calling!
It’s usually means I broke something, lost something or they want my credit card, so I hide in the closet with my dog and secret phone.
You’ll find me there most afternoons.
That is the most common in our home. One of my (many) pet peeves is when someone just starts talking from another room, expecting me to engage ina conversation in that manner.
If my wife were in distress, I assume I would be able to tell if she needed my urgent assistance, and would go to her.
When my husband just calls my name , it could be for anything. I would say it’s to initiate a conversation, but it isn’t really because the conversation is only about why he is calling me. It tends to go like this
Husband : calls my name and only my name
Me - I acknowledge him/respond in some way - maybe “Yes”, maybe “what” but something.
Husband; then tells me why he’s calling- dinner is ready, my phone is ringing ,he need help with something, whatever.
My pet peeve is calling my name to begin with - there’s no one in the house but the two of us, just say whatever it is without calling my name first. Or even “Doreen , dinner is ready” all at once would probably be OK.
I don’t know how large/small your house is. Ours is a split level with a basement - and front and back yards. So if I’m sitting in my living room, and am willing to go TO my wife to discuss something, I want to know if I should go up one level, down 2, or look outside.
I prefer that my wife call my name - allowing me to say, “What?” or “I’m in the basement!”, instead of when she will simply start a conversation. Then I say loudly, "I can’t hear you! or “I’m in the basement!” And she says, “There’s no need to yell!”
It’s not that big a house, not even 1200 sq ft - and like I said , it’s not ever really a conversation, nor does it ever involve one person being inside and one being outside. It’s literally that he’s going to say a single sentence- which could be about almost anything but always just a single sentence , not a conversation. I can say “What?” or “I’m in the basement” as appropriate in response to “Bring me a garbage bag” as easily as I can to my name.
Neither of us call out “Name”. We have a big house with outbuildings and land. Additionally, I’m hearing impaired and I don’t wear my hearing aid when I’m home.
I tend to walk around the house/yard saying, “Hello”. If she hears me she replies,”Yo!”. However, if our parrot is bored, he will yell (in my voice), “Hello” and my gf responds. When I don’t respond to her response, she searches for me until she realizes Rocco did it.
I’ll also ask the dogs “where is name?” , hoping they’ll lead me to her. They lead me, but not to her, instead towards something fun.
Calling out name just means “Are you here?” or “Where are you?” and any response initiates conversation. That usual response is one of us either says “yeah?” or “what” or “I’m taking a shit, leave me alone” or something of that nature. It definitely does not mean “come here!” That would require a “come here” or “get over here” following the name. I’m surprised that so far that for nearly 30% “name” only means “come.”
