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fossilesque @mander.xyz

1w ago

ain't your buddy, pal!

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People in Washington don't refer to each others.
- Exclusively as comrade (not pictured)

Northeast US left off because they just say "Yo asshole"
- It's how real america emotes

Anybody use the word fucker as a term of endearment? "What's up, fucker?"
- Ah, you must be from the North East.
  
  Or south Florida
  
  I'm an anomaly. I've lived almost everywhere.
- We prefer "What's up fuckface?"

I love that New England doesn't show a preference for any of the choices. My theory: Boston throws off the curve with "asshole" and "fucker" and the data scientists didn't want to cover cursing.
- Masshole.
- New England always on top, in our own way; confusing to those who aren't from around here.

So there's PAL, where's NTSC, and SÉCAM?
- angry analogue arrow up depress

Don't forget "guy" and "chief".
- they forgor 💀

Hypothesis: you can go to the Great lakes region and just make random noises and people will be like "hey, what's up?”.

Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don't refer to their friends
- Having male friends in Georgia is too homoerotic for their sensibilities.

I'm not your pal, guy!
- I'm not your guy buddeh!

Anything goes in Michigan.
- The last two aren't really used here.
  
  Guess I'm not your pal, fella.

People really say "fella"? It seems centered around Louisiana?

You can call me Al.

Where is sexy-(square)pants? Man-in-tights? Curly-cock? Dick-broom?
- You have some strange buddies.
  
  I never call them buddies, idk, that just sounds wrong.

What up, fucko?

There's quite a few terms missing, bitch, homie & n - - - a are the ones that come to mind right away. I'd like to see the demographic distribution of the participants.

The top three are used in California.
I mainly stick with Dude and Buddy (Buddy being my go to for strangers "Thanks Buddy")
In my office a few years back I started ironically calling people "Homie" and that overtime morphed into a gender neutral term of endearment we all used for each other.
I really wonder where "Homie" fits into this

I love that Ohio is purple in all of these

My area has some color in every one of these, lol.
- And mine has none for any of them... Sir
  
  That sucks, my acquaintance.

In Florida I mainly hear the top 3.
Bottom 2 would probably get an odd look.
That's really interesting I never thought that something as simple as "bro" would be different in different states

Good post, mate.

Colorado markedly absent as most people polled were likely from elsewhere and as such brought their own vernacular

https://media.tenor.com/qZXJ8qoEJTcAAAAM/friends-joey.gif

I love how the PNW just largely doesn't refer to people as anything.
Half-hearted 'Pal' dominance in New England is also concerning.

Alaskans and Hawaiians are incapable of forming bonds of friendship.
- Howzit, braddah?!
- Washington and idaho as well apprently.
  
  I am from Seattle.
  Anecdotally:
  This is correct.
  People are absurdly transactional, performative and superficial about relationships and also very anti social compared to basically anywhere else I've ever been in the US.
- Same

Interesting. Can we have have at least a tiny bit of info how this data came to be?
Not just this one, but all the infographs, maps etc. Always leave entirely open if someone just guessed the data for the lulz.
This makes me a litte sad sometimes
- https://qz.com/316906/the-dude-map-how-american-men-refer-to-their-bros
  
  So the map is more accurately titled "How American Twitter users refer..."
  
  Thanks! I think it would be a great rule of thumb for lemmy to always include sauce and especially the sidefacts about the data that relativize it. (See other replies)
  Less shiny maybe, but more real :)

I thought America was mostly NTSC

Seattle Freeze is REAL

nice maps, homes!

what happened to man... as in hey man.
- Can't afford the ticket. . . . BACK TO SUFFRAGETTE CITY
- Hey man (nice shot) - they are back, with their last album August 2023.
- I don't know, my man.
  
  that is cool, maaan. you tha man ! oh maaaan did you see those protests in US ?

no bro’s in california?
whoever made this hasn’t been to anything out west
- Bruh
  
  Touche
- The most glaring thing I saw too. I lived a large chunk of my life in So Cal and everyone was bro.
  
  thanks bro… dude is definitely popular, but bro has been pretty dominant….
  i will say it’s gone down ever since “bro” became derogatory… like tech-bro and other bullshit….
- Doesn't seem to count genz online slang

I’m not your bro, pal.

hey man, where's man at, man?
- I dunno my guy.

As a Washingtonian, as usual, I’m glad to barely be represented on a heat map of something.

Eastern Pennsylvania apparently has no word for Bros.

I was upset that Kentucky didn't have much coverage, but then I realized that "Hosscat" wasn't one of the choices.

I don't know why but "fella" sounds old fashioned to me.
- Cause ya ain't from the south
  
  I'm not from the US either, lol

I'm apparently in the "Pal" region and it's not a word I use often to refer to people, nor have I heard it used often by others either.
We use "Dude" pretty often, but looking at the map you'd think this is a dude desert.
- Further down the article this screen’s taken from, they show the raw data they got for “dude”, and its usage is pretty much everywhere.

People in Georgia and Washington State apparently don't have friends.
- Liv3 WA, can confirm.
- Or Florida.
  But actually it checks out for WA
  
  Florida has a few bros.
  
  I was thinking the north west was looking pretty bare too. Some in Montana, but that’s all.

Speaking of brotymology, what's a gender neutral version of bro/man?
- I use "fam".
- they are kinda a gender neutral.
  Bro is fairly commonly used as gender neutral word.
  Man (as in my man) does not have an equivalent (my person does not havve the ring) - but originally, man was the gender neutral term for persons, and we user mer (as in mermaid) / were (as in werewolf) for males. that is how man was used. But that very well could also be due to bias in writing and archiving of stuff, I don not know much about this.
- man is short for human
  
  Hu-man from Earth
- Cuz is acceptable
- I'm old, but my even older inlaws refer to each other affectionately as "person."
  People say "dude" is neutral, but you don't often see it used when all the dudes are women, and the existence of "dudette" also implies it's not.
  "Friend" maybe but could sound sarcastic.
  Come to think of it, all these terms are ripe for sarcastic use. In fact, I'd like to see the map of antibrotymology. Which of the above is used the way Wolverine uses "Bub"?
- Sib (as in sibling) is my preferred one.

Been ‘dude’ for me as long as I’ve been alive.

The large amounts of no-bro-zones scares me.

West coast here. There’s also “man” and “guys.” I use those way more than “dude” lol
- ok broseph

Damn, no representation for "babe", "bbgrl", etc? I use those a lot.

What's that enormous hole in dude?
- ~~It's where they poop.~~
  Its a funhole, with permission (& lube) it can fit a marvellous assortment of things. Doing so will also strengthen the bond between dudes.
- Dallas, which checks out.
  
  What do people say there?

Mid Atlantic region just doesn’t like anyone.
- We do not. So that is accurate!

Georgians have no friends.

Michigan is all about it.

The only thing this proves is that us here in the PNW truly do have less friends than the rest of our country men.
- but it's made up for with the greater PNW polycule
- I'm surprised it hasn't shifted to dude with the Californians moving in.
  
  Speaking as a Californian, I'm pretty sure the people leaving for Washington are the folks who ended up in the land of eight uninterrupted months of extroverts and cloudless blue skies by mistake and are self-sorting for a grimmer location. Can't blame them, I'd go too if I could; summers here just about make me lose my mind.

Fella 4 life

Dude is the single best word in the english language

Chief…

My buddy in Atlanta would like a word.
- Which word?
  "Stud?"
  "My man?"
  "Cuz?"
  
  You know that I'm crazy 'bout dem cupcakes, cousin!
- They have a word, you just can't say it

Massachusetts has much more dude than this.

bruh

I'm not your fella, pal

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