Another kind of buddy

[Joel S. Berson]

I hear them both as slightly disrespectful.  Probably because I would
not like to be called "bud", "buddy", or "pal" by someone I was not
buddy-like or pallish with (that is, acquainted and somewhat friendly with).

See also James Harbeck.

Joel

At 6/13/2007 10:52 PM, you wrote:
>>I see vocative 'buddy' as a neutral term of address for a male stranger in
>>situations not requiring any term of respect.
>
>Me, too. "Pal" about the same. Both maybe somewhat old-fashioned?
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