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Sesquipedalian Posted 19 years ago
Vocabulary
The word 'dude'
0 What is so offensive about it? Why do some people behave so arrogantly as to take offence when you refer to them as DUDE? 0-
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0 Probably because it's quite 01 font 00 informal 02 font 00 ,and if you don't happen know the person well it might be percieved as a sign of being rude. 02 br
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00 PS My 15 y.o. apprentice 00 called 00 me ' 01 font 00 man 02 font 00 ' eventhough I am a female 05 0 010id 1
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00 PS My 15 y.o. apprentice 00 called 00 me ' 01 font 00 man 02 font 00 ' eventhough I am a female 05 0 010id 1
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0 I didn't know that it was so offensive 05 0 00 I'm watching Lost and Hurley keeps on calling 'Dude' everyone on the island! 05 1 010id 311id 35
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0 It's extremely unprofessional. Don't use it at work. Don't call your teacher Dude. It's hardly arrogant to not want to be called that. 02 br
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00 Perhaps the speaker means to use it to convey a sense of friendly comaraderie, but it makes you sound like a California teenager. It tends to come before a comment that is spoken in a saracstic or condesending way. Dude, like, don
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00 Perhaps the speaker means to use it to convey a sense of friendly comaraderie, but it makes you sound like a California teenager. It tends to come before a comment that is spoken in a saracstic or condesending way. Dude, like, don
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0 1) Because it is teenage slang and not appropriate everywhere. 02 br
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00 2) It also means that you see yourself on the same 'level' as the person you are talking to. Rather like calling someone 'pal' or 'mate' and that is not appropriate with everyone. 02 br
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00 3) It can demonstrate a contemptuous attitude towards the person you are talking to as it is
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00 2) It also means that you see yourself on the same 'level' as the person you are talking to. Rather like calling someone 'pal' or 'mate' and that is not appropriate with everyone. 02 br
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00 3) It can demonstrate a contemptuous attitude towards the person you are talking to as it is
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0 Whould you like to be called sweetie by a complete stranger? Informal language is informal language and you should be careful while using it. I worked in an international environment and one of my assistant, a Bulgarian girl, made the big mistake to say a colleague, he was a child. The colleague, an other assistant, was from Palestina and not pleased. He said he want to kill her and he had to
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00 I would call him a psychopath or a fanatical maniac, would it describe him best? It seems to me that you like his attitude and are speaking in his defence. 0-
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00 I would call him a psychopath or a fanatical maniac, would it describe him best? It seems to me that you like his attitude and are speaking in his defence. 0-
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0 If a gal called me sweetie I would be pleased, if a dude called me sweetie I would find it gay and object to that. 02 br
00 Who on earth told you I wasn't a teenager? 0-
00 Who on earth told you I wasn't a teenager? 0-
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0 The attitude that you can call people anything you like even if they don't like it, is a very teenage attitude, so that news doesn't surprise me. 02 br
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00 Like most slang, it's a word that is appropriate with some people and not with others. Life is easier if you learn the difference. 0-
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00 Like most slang, it's a word that is appropriate with some people and not with others. Life is easier if you learn the difference. 0-
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0 Well it's the way I talk if they don't want to hear it they are free to ignore me zomg. 0-
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