Why do people (meaning men) say "bro" so often, even to someone GENERATIONS their senior?

[beefcakebradybatson]

[mysteriousNicholas]

I'm grateful many island nations have introduced us to "bro, bruh, brah" and the Californian influence 👀👌🏻👍🏻✅ of being a melting pot 🍯 🍲 of cultures

Same as many diverse countries nowadays. "Ya what mate" lol 😂 😆 classic British cockney

[mysteriousNicholas]

You even get the ones saying Boomer nowadays to describe baby boomers 😀👻

[beefcakebradybatson]

Only "bra" which interests me is a 38D bra !!!

[DryGermanGuy]

In the train a few days ago I stood near a group of highschool girls, where they addressed each other as "digga" every ten seconds. We are doomed.

[beefcakebradybatson]

"Digga?" (There was an, ahem , stereotypical "African" Depression-Era [or earlier] song called "Digga Digga Doo." Could they be referencing that, proving everything A CENTURY OLD is new again?)

[DryGermanGuy]

No, it was local youth slang for "buddy" that started in the 1970s and by the 1980s the hip-hopper scene had appropriated it.
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[beefcakebradybatson]

I was young in the 1970's (I'm Canadian, not American [by birth]) and I never heard "digga" used for pal.

[DryGermanGuy]

Of course not, unless your town would have spoken German and mirrored what happened in the Hamburg youth scene.

[mysteriousNicholas]

Oh I'm glad you weren't implying they were saying the N word. Thank you German guy

[beefcakebradybatson]

@mysteriousNicholas EVERYBODY says the "N" word, especially we black folk.

[FunkyMonkee]

Why do girls say it to other girls?
"Dude" is another one that sounds stupid as fuck.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/d7sf2O90eu4

[mysteriousNicholas]

@FunkyMonkee nothing worse than referring to any woman or saying to a feminine woman (not even a sporty or butch woman) "hey dude" - cringey

[FunkyMonkee]

@mysteriousNicholas True!
Dude was a word surfers used in the early `80's!! Do even people FROM the valley still talk like that?

[AngryCarl2]

UK here. We never say bro. The polite form of address for another man you don't know is "mate".

[DryGermanGuy]

Prefixed by an "Oy", of course. :-D

[mysteriousNicholas]

"hey man," I'm glad it's being reduced from mate to buddy or from mate to man ♂️😉

[mysteriousNicholas]

I don't like, mate 😞

[msc545]

It's just slang. I wouldn't make a big deal out of it.

[mysteriousNicholas]

@msc545 let the 20s something be something 20s 👌🏻😅 live a little

[beefcakebradybatson]

Hmmmmm...

[zagor]

In Hawaii it was "brah"

[mysteriousNicholas]

You what brah? ✅👍🏻😉