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adventureman · Joined: 18 Feb 2003

At what age do you feel its best apporpriate for North American men to drop "dude" from their everyday informal conversation with freinds ...Like, "what's up dude?" "Hey dude!" "What are you up to dude?" "I know, dude"

I've met guys in their mid 30's to late 30's who still use the word sometimes but I guess that might have to do with the fact that their generation, the 80's was the first to use it more frequently...

Even still, would you think it was weird if a 50 year old guy called you a "dude"?

By the way, just to make things clear, i'm not trying to harp too much on the word 'dude' I even use it myself from time to time..kind of 'mate' in England I suppose.

canuckistan · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:14 pm Post subject:

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

I'm 40-ish and find myself using it a lot. Occasionally I feel like, "Did I just say that?"
I try to keep it with friends my age, who also use it, younger friends I've know a long time,
even close female friends.
I have a niece who calls me Uncle Dude. It's ingrained, and I can't imagine stopping, barring therapy.

Delirium's Brother · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:07 pm Post subject:

Never a frat-boy, and almost past it based on the scale in your poll, but I use "dude" a lot in informal conversation. When I was young, I was way too serious to use "dude." But now I'd have to be reprogrammed if I ever wanted to stop it.

pocketfluff · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:11 pm Post subject:

No comment.

pocketfluff · Posted: Tue Jul 18, 2006 10:12 pm Post subject:

mole · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Act III

Ya-ta Boy · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib

My mom says dude and she's 50. I used to work with a super hot 40-somthing chick who said dude, too. She was fun. My mom is fun.

I think saying dude has less to do with age and more to do with how much a stuck-up priq with a stick up your ass you are. Oh, I'm sooo mature, I wouldn't possibly say that word! Okay, fabulous. Off you go, then, to your land of boring lounge music and burgundy on the rocks where you and your acquaintances who are too caught up in yourselves to give more than a snicker at any joke because no base humor can ever reach your high level of understanding can congratulate each other on your success in shedding nametags and all things less sophisticated. The rest of us will just, you know, ignore you.

Natalia · Joined: 10 Mar 2006

For non-Americans, it should stop at birth (ie never start). It is starting to catch on in Australia, and it sounds so stupid coming out of an Australian's mouth.

I suppose, being an American thing, I don't have the faintest idea when it is appropriate. The only time I have used the word was in conversation relating to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

peppermint · Posted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 3:12 am Post subject:

For me, it's like the male version of a girl uptalking. ( ending every sentance like a question? like y'know?)

both are fine among friends but if you can't drop it in a professional setting, it's not good

flotsam · Joined: 28 Mar 2006

I think it can be applied to certain situations, e.g.:

I still don't think that Qinella's a dude. He's got a cat in his avatar for crissake's!

Like that.

cwemory · Joined: 14 Jan 2006 Location: Gunpo, Korea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dude
http://www.pitt.edu/~kiesling/dude/dude.html
http://www.vagablogging.net/archives/001542.shtml
http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=20010621
http://printculture.com/?itemid=833

There's more written about dude than there should be, dude.

Leslie Cheswyck · Joined: 31 May 2003 Location: University of Western Chile

Lee Marvin said 'dude' a few times in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).

He was about 38 then.

Qinella · Joined: 25 Feb 2005 Location: the crib