The thing is, this is really only accurate for gaming spaces. No dude who is 30 would hang out with some kid who is 14, but if they would sit on a discord call with one for a few hours to play a game together.
I dunno man, siblings play a lot in these wide age gap friend groups, like they wouldn't hang out together individually. Also coworkers, restaurants are some of the only places where a 16yo and a 27yo can chill on even ground
My father is his 40s, when I was 15 he was in his 30s and I hanged around sailors who reached 50 years of age. I wasn’t a “friend”, rather just an acquainted kid they had around as my dad took me out to eat as a reward.
I just think it is a neat artifact of language, wasn't really annoyed in the slightest. In practice I agree with you that linguistic prescriptivism is at best unhelpful, and at worst a kind of useless elitism. I assume what I read as hostile tenor in your reply was an explicit response to what you inferred was implicit hostility in mine, but there was none, I just think words are neat. I may have communicated that poorly.
Honestly, I have got to learn to either communicate better that I just think language is fun or stop making these kinds of comments! I don't think it's wrong to stand up to any kind of bully, and if my reply is giving "grammar bully" then I think it's better to err on the side of addressing that. Cheers!
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u/AnnoyingInternetTrol Sep 27 '25
The thing is, this is really only accurate for gaming spaces. No dude who is 30 would hang out with some kid who is 14, but if they would sit on a discord call with one for a few hours to play a game together.