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[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 months ago (2 children)

That's cause the male version is DUUUDE!

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Duuuuuuuuude is universal.

Sad: Duuude...
Happy: Duuuude!
Excited: Duuuuude!!!!
Mad: Dude!
Disappointed: dude
To male friends: Dude
To female friends: Dude
To your significant other: Dude

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And not-gendered.

I’m a dude, you’re a dude, she’s a dude, we’re all dudes now.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I fuck dudes, why do you ask?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I also fuck dudes, why do you care?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Just to be clear, I only fuck the sorts of dudes who want fuckin, so don't think of me as some sort of dude-fuck peddler, okay?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

or Duder, or El Duderino,....

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 months ago (2 children)

What company is ok with their COO saying shit like this next to their name?

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

Probably self-proclaimed COO of an MLM she sells shit for.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Shouldn’t it be „me neither“?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yes it should. Kind of in the same way that it should be "I couldn't care less" instead of "I could care less" which I've seen a lot more in recent years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Bernie said “could care less” in his response to the sotu last night. Made me cringe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Literally just talking about that! I agree that the original intent (and, you know, meanings of words) should make it "couldn't" but I think the two have linguistically drifted together within the phrase.

The rules-boy in me rallies against it, but the descriptivist in me celebrates and I couldn't care less how he said it.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wittgenstein said that language isn't actually semantic in its natural state. Instead, language serves as a sort of game to accomplish social ends.

"I could care less" serves the social end of telling everyone you have no critical thinking skills and shouldn't be taken seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Delete it now

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago

Both of those have multiple other uses, good and bad. Maaan is used for amazement and girrrl is used for incredulity.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think it probably has far more to do with phonetics and the ways different sounds carry emotion than with the gender identity we insist upon associating with specific words

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Kiki booba?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

Yeah boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Misandrist

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

So, she doesn't realize the thing she just typed out?