• bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    puer is just the regular word for boy, as in ”young male” without any sexual connotation.

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      Words can mean different things with different tones and contexts.

      Oh that one? He’s a guy. But him over there <points> he’s a boy <wink>

      • exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        “Boy” in English has a ton of potential connotations. As one of many examples, during the Civil Rights Movement there was a famous protest sign that said I AM A MAN to counter the way white men addressed black men as “boy.”