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He's 33, hardly a "kid"
by mejari 9y ago
He's 33, hardly a "kid"
- hanoz 9y agoIsn't that all the more impressive in a 42 inch boat?
- cylinder 9y agoMy pet peeve. In graduate school we had professors, lecturers, working professionals etc constantly calling us students "kids" even though we were all 25+ yrs old. I believe this is a pretty American thing to always be infantilizing people.
- smcl 9y agoI never understood it, 25+ year old "kids" going to "school"
- gaius 9y agoIn all American TV shows set in high school, the actors/actresses are all in their mid-20s. Ralph Macchio was in his 30s when he played the Karate Kid. It's altered people's expectations of how people look at certain ages.
- manmal 9y agoYes, like calling grown women "girl", or calling partners "babe"/"bae". In German this would sound very, very off.
- bananasbandanas 9y agoNot really. Calling your girlfriend 'Baby' or refering to a girls-night-out as 'Mädelsabend' are perfectly common for example. I agree though that I never heard a professor refer to his students in this way and would definitively find it strange if that happened.
- manmal 9y ago"Baby" does not count because it's not German, and it can be traced back directly to imported pop culture (Movies). You are right about "Mädels", it's not exactly the same as "girl" though (rather girly) - you would never say "Mädchenabend", that's cringy.