Minor Pickiness
POSTED BY: Mark
UPDATED: Friday, November 15, 2002 19:58
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In every movie and TV show I've every seen, real or fictional, that showed someone entering the military, one of the very first things that a recruit was "taught" by the drill sergeant the moment the recruit stepped off the bus was that EVERY time they addressed a superior, they must begin and end with "sir". As in, "Sir! Yes, Sir!"
More antecdotaly, from the ocassional military personnel I've encountered, I've noticed that some have a tendency to address anyone they respect, even civilians, as "sir".
The Zoe character doesn't strike me as being one to stand on ceremony- i.e. to only begin calling Mal "sir" once he officially assumed captaincy of Serenity. It seemed to me she simply does it out of habit. Which doesn't strike me personally as being at all incongruous with their implied history.
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