Monday, November 10, 2025

Linguistic bemusement XII

In the early 2000s, I was catching up on the phone with someone I'd known as a DJ who had become a program director.  At the end of the call, he said, "Well, young man, I'll talk to you later."

I was in my thirties at the time and thought, "'Young man?'  Where did that come from?"

Authority does strange things to a person.