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Man and Dude and Bro (& co.)

When and where (and why??) did 'mang' first appear?
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No idea. Appears popular hear in Oakland and nearby...and among certain Latino immigrant groups...and it's sorta in common parlance. I find myself using it sometimes.

ebola
 
Is it wrong that I've been saying mate rather often? I dunno, I hung out with a lot of british and australian friends in thailand and it sort of stuck. lol mae ben rai
 
Alot of people say bro where i live. I think its a regionally cultural thing.
 
Finder said:
"Sir, you are making a scene."

I probably say dude way too much. Not really in the duuuuuude stereotypical way though. :\
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Yeah Brah.
 
clearly I'm years behind the original question but what is really going on when men call eachother 'son'? especially if they are about the same age and don't know eachother well? I've always wondered if it is meant to be a little bit patronising or offensive.
 
it all depends like bro i use for my close friends man is if you mad lol like wft man and dude is af you excited like dude did you see that althogh i mostly just use bro
 
I say dude and man way too much. Weirdly, I've had a lot of guys who tell me it 'offends' them if i've called them dude or man and that its a 'turn off' when females say it.

*shrugs* it's just part of my vocabulary now. I cant see how it's offensive...?
 
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I say dude and man way too much. Weirdly, I've had a lot of guys who tell me it 'offends' them if i've called them dude or man and that its a 'turn off' when females say it.

*shrugs* it's just part of my vocabulary now. I cant see how it's offensive...?
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I think that really depends on the girl, how she carries herself, and what kind of company she keeps. I have a good female friend, most of whose friends are guys, who calls them dude and doesn't sound odd doing it. Kind of how there are certain guys can pull off 'hey girl' or 'chica' without offense. Fact remains, this word is definitely male vocabulary traditionally, and people who aren't comfy traversing those kinds of boundaries might be a little offput (and uptight, IMHO :) )

Do any native English speakers still call people 'Mister' anymore? Or does that have the same kind of sharp edge as 'Hey lady'? You still hear this in places where people's English is a little behind the times. I've gotten 'Hello, Mister' in Indonesia and Japan.
 
It's just a part of the slang that pollutes the way I speak English. It's all second nature to me, and I don't even think about using any of the terms, it kinda just happens, man.

I prefer to have the words "dude" and "man" etc. just fall out of my mouth, over having "like" come out every other word.
 
Keaton said:
I prefer to have the words "dude" and "man" etc. just fall out of my mouth, over having "like" come out every other word.
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Haha yeah exactly.

MDAO, I dont know if it's a coincidence, but the men who says this to me, are ones I was involved with romantically. Funnily enough they always turned out jealous and paranoid of my male friends, so it might be an insecurity thing. :\
 
skinuppinup said:
clearly I'm years behind the original question but what is really going on when men call eachother 'son'? especially if they are about the same age and don't know eachother well? I've always wondered if it is meant to be a little bit patronising or offensive.
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I've always interpreted this to be an attempt to assert superiority.

As for the terms;

I often used 'man' or 'dude' usually because im awful at remembering names; and over time it's just developed as habit when acknowledging someone else's presence. I do on occasion still forget peoples names, because i dont place to much value on 'names' in general.. so it can also be a friendly/casual way of greeting someone who's name i've forgotten or don't know.
 
Am I the only one who hears Stewie Griffin's voice when reading out Jamshayed 's posts?

What the Deuce? ;)
 
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LOL, I call my mom "dude" sometimes without thinking. :D As others have said, its just a mannerism like gesticulating or saying "like" to fill in pauses between words; it seems to be an unconscious thing for most people.
 
^ Don't you think it serves some function of communication, though? "Like" is just to fill gaps, as you said, but I think that "dude", "man", and "bro" actually influence the message to some degree.



Wow. I'd never really considered my usage of "dude" and "man" before this thread, but now I'm really perplexed as to what function they serve. It's just a really intuitive thing. Some sentences really don't reflect the intended shade of meaning unless I stick a "dude" somewhere in there. But what are these words doing?

Hmm.

I'm almost feeling like they're a way of communicating intensity, or magnitude, of some sort, sometimes.

Imagine someone looking at you straight in the eye, and simply saying, "Dude..." and shaking their head. You're going to think that something has gone terribly wrong, am I right? You've committed some sort of ghastly faux pas, or something?
 
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