On: 42-inch yacht still hoping to become the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic

[cylinder]

My pet peeve. In graduate school we had professors, lecturers, working professionals etc constantly calling us students "kids" even though we were all 25+ yrs old. I believe this is a pretty American thing to always be infantilizing people.

[manmal → cylinder]

Yes, like calling grown women "girl", or calling partners "babe"/"bae". In German this would sound very, very off.

[bananasbandanas → manmal]

Not really. Calling your girlfriend 'Baby' or refering to a girls-night-out as 'Mädelsabend' are perfectly common for example.

I agree though that I never heard a professor refer to his students in this way and would definitively find it strange if that happened.

[manmal → bananasbandanas]

"Baby" does not count because it's not German, and it can be traced back directly to imported pop culture (Movies). You are right about "Mädels", it's not exactly the same as "girl" though (rather girly) - you would never say "Mädchenabend", that's cringy.

[smcl → cylinder]

I never understood it, 25+ year old "kids" going to "school"

[gaius → smcl]

In all American TV shows set in high school, the actors/actresses are all in their mid-20s. Ralph Macchio was in his 30s when he played the Karate Kid. It's altered people's expectations of how people look at certain ages.

[stupidhn → gaius]

Macchio was 23 in the first film, and 28 in Karate Kid 3. This information is at your fingertips.

[smcl → gaius]

Nah I was meaning the word choice, to me it's weird to call people that age "kids" and t say there at "school" not university/college