Dude -- professor studies 'dude'

[LincolnMcGrath]

A linguist from the University of Pittsburgh has published a scholarly paper deconstructing and deciphering the word "dude," contending it is much more than a catchall for lazy, inarticulate surfers, skaters, slackers and teenagers.

An admitted dude-user during his college years, Scott Kiesling said the four-letter word has many uses: in greetings ("What's up, dude?"); as an exclamation ("Whoa, Dude!"); commiseration ("Dude, I'm so sorry."); to one-up someone ("That's so lame, dude."); as well as agreement, surprise and disgust ("Dude.").

Dude" also shows no signs of disappearing as more and more of our culture becomes youth-centered, said Mary Bucholtz, an associate professor of linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

"I have seen middle-aged men using 'dude' with each other," she said

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/12/08/dude.study.ap/index.html

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

1. Dude. he's talking about ME!

I'm 39, dude!

[LincolnMcGrath]

5. I hear ya Dude!

[plcdude]

2. I resemble

that. Although this moniker was given to me by one of my students.

[Dora]

3. It's not just that our culture is youth-centered

My husband is a middle-aged musician, and he and other musicians he works with use "dude" as well as other Slanglish terms. It's not just youth culture - that was a stupid assertion for Bucholtz to make.

All subcultures have their own vocabularies, whether it's jazz musicians or bankers or sixteen-year-old beer bongers.

"Dude! Don't call me dude!"

[samwisefoxburr]

4. Dude!

Coop: I'm not gonna do it, dude, end of story!

Douglas "Swish" Reemer: Dude!

Coop: Dude!

Douglas "Swish" Reemer: Dude!

Coop: Dude!

Douglas "Swish" Reemer: Dude!

<Coop looks shocked>

Douglas "Swish" Reemer: Dude.

Coop: I see your point.

[LincolnMcGrath]

6. What is that from?

[noshenanigans]

7. Baseketball

God, I love that movie. And not only because I want to do naughty things to Matt Stone.

[LincolnMcGrath]

8. Thanks

I knew I had heard it, just couldn,t bring it forward from the tip of my tongue. lol

[KurtNYC]

9. My contribution to the study

from TBL:

LEBOWSKI
You're just looking for a handout
like every other--are you employed,
Mr. Lebowski?

DUDE
Look, let me explain something.
I'm not Mr. Lebowski; you're Mr.
Lebowski. I'm the Dude. So that's
what you call me. That, or Duder.
His Dudeness. Or El Duderino, if,
you know, you're not into the whole
brevity thing--


http://bednark.com/big.lebowski.script.html