"It Just Seems So Insincere": 17 Phrases Americans Use That The Rest Of The World Doesn't Really Understand
November 1, 2025
“Start a family.”
“I have a visceral negative reaction to ‘to start a family’ which, contrary to the way I interpreted it the first time I heard it, means not moving in together or getting married but having children. My problem with this phrase is, of course, purely ideological: it implies that childless families are not actually families but merely candidates for being one. Because…
