People in Washington don’t refer to each others.
ain't your buddy, pal!
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Opisek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Exclusively as comrade (not pictured)
Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
crusa187@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Seattle Freeze is REAL
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
no bro’s in california?
whoever made this hasn’t been to anything out westmorrowind@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Doesn’t seem to count genz online slang
BurningRiver@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
The most glaring thing I saw too. I lived a large chunk of my life in So Cal and everyone was bro.
xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
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….
Litebit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
what happened to man… as in hey man.
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Can’t afford the ticket. . . . BACK TO SUFFRAGETTE CITY
OpenStars@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
I don’t know, my man.
Litebit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
that is cool, maaan. you tha man ! oh maaaan did you see those protests in US ?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Northeast US left off because they just say “Yo asshole”
easily3667@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
It’s how real america emotes
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
As a Washingtonian, as usual, I’m glad to not be represented on a heat map of something.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
[deleted]FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I dunno my guy.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not your bro, pal.
sga@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
you broke my heart, man
match@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
somehow, south park CO has almost no color on any of these maps
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
Anybody use the word fucker as a term of endearment? “What’s up, fucker?”
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Ah, you must be from the North East.
easily3667@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
Or south Florida
doingthestuff@lemy.lol 3 weeks ago
I’m an anomaly. I’ve lived almost everywhere.
Brickhead92@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
We prefer “What’s up fuckface?”
Agrivar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Masshole.
Ashe@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
New England always on top, in our own way; confusing to those who aren’t from around here.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So there’s PAL, where’s NTSC, and SÉCAM?
MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
angry analogue arrow up depress
OldManBOMBIN@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I was upset that Kentucky didn’t have much coverage, but then I realized that “Hosscat” wasn’t one of the choices.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Eastern Pennsylvania apparently has no word for Bros.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
It’s just a nod and a quickly whispered “Go Birds.”
kiwifoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Youse guys
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He speaks the shibboleth!
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
“Jawn”
Eyedust@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget “guy” and “chief”.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
they forgor 💀
loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’m not your pal, guy!
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’m not your guy fwiend!
Stovetop@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
don@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
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.
AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don’t refer to their friends
AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Having male friends in Georgia is too homoerotic for their sensibilities.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Hypothesis: you can go to the Great lakes region and just make random noises and people will be like "hey, what’s up?”.
ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Speaking of brotymology, what’s a gender neutral version of bro/man?
sga@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
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.
Sergio@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I use “fam”.
BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
man is short for human
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Hu-man from Earth
Tiocfaidhcaisarla@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
Cuz is acceptable
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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”?
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
People in Georgia and Washington State apparently don’t have friends.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
Where is sexy-(square)pants? Man-in-tights? Curly-cock? Dick-broom?
Chromebby@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
West coast here. There’s also “man” and “guy.” I use those way more than “dude” lol
sturlabragason@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The large amounts of no-bro-zones scares me.
giuseppe@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Anything goes on Wisconsin.
stammi@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
You can call me Al.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
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.
Mac@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Damn, no representation for “babe”, “bbgrl”, etc? I use those a lot.
keepcarrot@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
What’s that enormous hole in dude?
kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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
fossilesque@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
qz.com/…/the-dude-map-how-american-men-refer-to-t…
TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So the map is more accurately titled “How American Twitter users refer…”
kwomp2@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
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 :)