Thread: Informal English usage and possible translation issues
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Old 01-20-2024, 07:25 PM   #12
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Originally Posted by Quoth View Post
A group of men might be the lads or the boys; there was never the usage of calling an adult servant / slave / serf 'boy' like in Southern USA States.
In the SE USA emphatically calling someone well into adulthood and beyond "boy" was by no means limited to targeting people in a subservient position, much less actual slaves. It was common 50 years ago and I doubt that it has completely died out, especially in one on one encounters with no witnesses.
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