Talk:Dr. Priyanka Maheswaran/@comment-29839052-20150425005040/@comment-25883771-20150713001431

I live in the northeast part of Brazil, and this is a very common thing here, showing respect to your parents like this. Of course, we use a lot informal things, like "mainha/painho" (it would be something like "mommy/daddy"), but we mix them in speaking with "senhora/senhor" ("ma'am/sir -> [It's a stange translation, but I don't know any other English word that fits better]). For what I have studied in school, this is a vestige of the colonial time, when the sons and daughters of the rich sugar planting lords had to speak with their parents like this, specially in public.