View Single Post
  #6  
Old December 17, 2017, 12:17 AM
wrholt's Avatar
wrholt wrholt is offline
Sapphire
 
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Posts: 1,401
Native Language: US English
wrholt is on a distinguished road
When I was visiting Central America for several weeks at age 17, occasionally an older female street vendor would call me "mijo" when responding to some question of mine during the transaction. I suspect that these women reserved "mijo/mija" for young people, and probably went with "señor/señora" for a customer who was closer to their own age.
Reply With Quote