Uses Of The Word "Dude" Deciphered

[matcom]

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DUDE, you've got to read this. 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.").

Kiesling says in the autumn edition of American Speech that the word derives its power from something he calls cool solidarity - an effortless kinship that's not too intimate.

Cool solidarity is especially important to young men who are under social pressure to be close with other young men, but not close enough to be taken as gays.

In other words: Close, dude, but not that close.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11636552%255E13762,00.html

[cleofus1]

1. yow!

Yer just making it all more complicated than it really is dude!

[ET Awful]

2. Hmmm, using his research, one can logically conclude that the words

"fuck" and "dude" mean the same thing.

For instance, they can serve the same purposes, i.e. greetings "what the fuck's up?"; exclamations "Fuckin' A", commisseration "such a fuckin' shame"; to one-up someone "that is so fucked up"; as well as agreement, surprise and disgust "FUCK".

So, my theory, based on this person's research is that "dude" and "fuck" mean the same thing :).

[madinmaryland]

3. duuude

:wtf: