Addressing a group of people with -tachi (たち) and name of one


I knew the general idea of -tachi, as explained e.g. here: ["Hey Bro!" how to
call out friends](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/questions/30002/hey-bro-
how-to-call-out-friends/38533#38533)

However, in one ラノベ I read the following situation: Assume there is a
supervisor Asahi and 2 employees Kimi and Mashi of same "grade" sitting at the
same table. And Asahi addresses both of them ("you two"/"both of you") using
"Kimi-tachi".

Isn't such a call-out insulting to Mashi? I mean, the translation would be
"Kimi and the other one", "Kimi's group", etc., correct? But since Kimi and
Mashi are of the same social standing, isn't just naming one of them strange?




You don't usually address people that way unless you indicate one group in
contrast to others. Even if you do so when there doesn't seem to be a good
reason, I don't particularly feel anything.

I'd like you to consider that you couldn't do that to begin with if there was
such connotation for one who doesn't happen to be representative.




「きみ」 as a personal name and the pronoun 「君{きみ}」 are **_pronounced so
differently_** that at least among us native speakers, there would be no
confusion or misunderstanding.

「きみたち{HLLL}」 = "Kimi and the gang"

「きみたち{LHLL}」 = "Y'all"

Mashi will know without thinking which one was said just by the pronunciation.

Hope I am not misreading your question.

