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posted by [personal profile] simont at 08:39am on 02/06/2010
"who was that boy you were with?"

Hmm, that's an interesting one, because (assuming I've inferred the context correctly) it faintly implies a connection with "boyfriend", one context in which the syllable "boy" is largely uncontroversial to use even of grown men.
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posted by [personal profile] ptc24 at 12:04pm on 02/06/2010
Incidentally, you may want to s/syllable/morpheme. According to the link: a morpheme is is the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning. So the syllable "boy", I think, is a morpheme in "boyfriend" but not in "flamboyant".
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posted by [personal profile] simont at 12:17pm on 02/06/2010
I nearly said that, but at the last minute couldn't quite remember if it was quite the right word or not...
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