ain't your buddy, pal!
ain't your buddy, pal!
ain't your buddy, pal!
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
People in Washington don't refer to each others.
Exclusively as comrade (not pictured)
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
I don't know, my man.
that is cool, maaan. you tha man ! oh maaaan did you see those protests in US ?
Hey man (nice shot) - they are back, with their last album August 2023.
Bruh
Touche
The most glaring thing I saw too. I lived a large chunk of my life in So Cal and everyone was bro.
Doesn't seem to count genz online slang
I dunno my guy.
Northeast US left off because they just say "Yo asshole"
As a Washingtonian, as usual, I’m glad to barely be represented on a heat map of something.
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.
Anybody use the word fucker as a term of endearment? "What's up, fucker?"
Ah, you must be from the North East.
I'm an anomaly. I've lived almost everywhere.
We prefer "What's up fuckface?"
So there's PAL, where's NTSC, and SÉCAM?
angry analogue arrow up depress
I was upset that Kentucky didn't have much coverage, but then I realized that "Hosscat" wasn't one of the choices.
Eastern Pennsylvania apparently has no word for Bros.
It's just a nod and a quickly whispered "Go Birds."
Youse guys
He speaks the shibboleth!
"Jawn"
I'm not your pal, guy!
I'm not your guy buddeh!
Hypothesis: you can go to the Great lakes region and just make random noises and people will be like "hey, what's up?”.
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
Don't forget "guy" and "chief".
they forgor 💀
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.
Speaking of brotymology, what's a gender neutral version of bro/man?
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.
I use "fam".
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"?
Cuz is acceptable
man is short for human
Hu-man from Earth
Sib (as in sibling) is my preferred one.
West coast here. There’s also “man” and “guys.” I use those way more than “dude” lol
ok broseph
The large amounts of no-bro-zones scares me.
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.
Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don't refer to their friends
Having male friends in Georgia is too homoerotic for their sensibilities.
Been ‘dude’ for me as long as I’ve been alive.
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.
Damn, no representation for "babe", "bbgrl", etc? I use those a lot.
You can call me Al.
People really say "fella"? It seems centered around Louisiana?
Anything goes in Michigan.
The last two aren't really used here.
Guess I'm not your pal, fella.
Mid Atlantic region just doesn’t like anyone.
We do not. So that is accurate!
Georgians have no friends.
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 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.
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
Michigan is all about it.
My area has some color in every one of these, lol.
And mine has none for any of them... Sir
That sucks, my acquaintance.
Chief…
Dude is the single best word in the english language
Fella 4 life
Massachusetts has much more dude than this.
bruh
I'm super curious about that hole in Texas for "dude."
So, we're no longer using 'stud?'
Only for bros with benefits.
Breh.
Good post, mate.
I'm not your fella, pal
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
My Dude!
Colorado markedly absent as most people polled were likely from elsewhere and as such brought their own vernacular
I love that Ohio is purple in all of these
Fella is now a warning word.
Well, you say that, but clearly the data shows a a significant buddy/pal overlap.
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.
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.
Howzit, braddah?!
Same