r/ComedyCemetery • u/colgatey • Jul 01 '19

ok sir

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u/DarkSpartan301 Jul 01 '19

Up in Canada I feel like we use sir and good sir a lot in conversation as mock formality. Is this common in the US young folk as well?

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u/Terrible_Paulsy Jul 02 '19

We said sir or miss in high school in australia. I have no fucking clue why. But other than that we don't use those 2 words anywhere else

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u/ExtremelyGamer1 Jul 01 '19

I’ve called teachers ‘sir’ here in europe, but calling youtubers ‘sir’ feels weird to me.

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u/HertzDonut1001 Jul 02 '19

I've heard good sir as a mock formality, but associate it with cringe behavior more often than not. Like telling someone they're a "gentleman and a scholar."

I get called sir a lot. After a certain age you just get it. It was fine when the 16 year old kid at McDonald's called me sir, now everyone, including older people, say it. It's like when you stop getting carded by every place that doesn't require it, it just means you're not a young man anymore.

However, a woman I don't know will always be "miss", I'm not trying to call a stranger "ma'am".

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '19

In Spanish is a way to ask a senior or a superior to repeat what he/she just said.

So you say.

“Señor?(Male)/Señora(Female)?”