Dude, You can't be serious!

The word 'dude' has not been spoken by anyone in NYC except in jest in over four years, the heartland may still be ringing with it but not CBGB.

Goggle it. You'll understand.

Joe (tuning his 12 string to a D mode) Nation

Even unto the highest levels...

That book is a year and a half old.

MMmmm, I dunno, I still use dude. It's usually a little tongue-and-cheeck, but not really in jest. I also use it to replace other words when the kids are in the car and I'm yelling at drivers.

Ok I googled it! I could find no reason for New Yawkers disdain. Maybe a hint...

I used dude on occassion for emphasis, and I've heard plenty of people use it when talking to me. My best (female) friend calls me (female) a dude all the frickin time. Dude.

Those under 24 have moved on past 'dude'.....we fogies are hanging on hoping to be hip.'''''''

J

Dude, I'm under 24. ;-)

Joe--

I agree about the Old Fogie factor--my step grand children are masters and mistresses of the conspicuous wince.

I associate "dude" with "dude ranches" and "divorce mills" and have never been tempted to use it any other way.

The best indication that a word has passed from hipness is its use in
more than two TV commercials.

Second best indication is when I use it, dude.

DUDE .. you are like........ soooo deep. You must be smart or somthin.

Not long after I wrote that, I heard a commercial on the radio that
used "dude", but in the older context of "dude ranch." The premise is that
a couple comes to the ranch only to find that it is in fact a "nude ranch."

They flee as Granny comes out to greet them.

Well, like Nike must be like so last century. Like y'know dude.



We in Oz now have an advert for breakfast cereal that has champion swimmer Ian 'Thorpy' Thorpe endorsing it as 'fully sick'. That should drop out of teenage parlance pretty quick I'm thinking.



Dude/s.

DUDE The magazine American Speech, the journal of the American
Dialect Society, has received some unexpected press coverage this
week following the publication of a deeply scholarly article in the
Fall issue on the cultural implications of the word "dude" among
young Americans. The author, Scott Kiesling of the University of
Pittsburgh, says that it has become much more than a catch-all for
lazy, inarticulate slackers and teenagers. He argues it derives its
force from what he calls cool solidarity, which he describes as an
effortless kinship that's not too intimate, especially important to
young men who are under social pressure to be close to other young
men, but not enough to be suspected as gay. (As a follow-up point
not mentioned in the articles referenced below, Kiesling suggests
that "dude" at first meant "old rags", with a "dudesman" being a
scarecrow. However, his etymology has been challenged by two ADS
researchers, who argue - with evidence to support them - that it
instead derives from the title of the song "Yankee Doodle Dandy",
used in the American West in the nineteenth century as a sarcastic
and derogatory reference to sharply dressed Easterners; "doodle"
was later extracted and abbreviated.)

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fully sick?

That is even a saying?
damn.. i am soooo outta the cool loop.
Like dude.. that is way wierd. Like oh my god!