• Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    In the past

    you say that like sir doesn’t carry the same meaning in non-colonial bourgeois contexts. sir is for children and servants to address their ‘betters’, it’s politeness in that the people involved conform to the behavior expected of their social positions