{"id":6895,"date":"2004-12-08T06:51:37","date_gmt":"2004-12-08T13:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/12\/08\/duuuuuude.html"},"modified":"2004-12-08T06:51:37","modified_gmt":"2004-12-08T13:51:37","slug":"duuuuuude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/12\/08\/duuuuuude.html","title":{"rendered":"Duuuuuude!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A linguistic study of the word “dude”<\/a> among, well, dudes.<\/p>\n

Kiesling says in the fall 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 enough to be suspected as gay.<\/p>\n

In other words: Close, dude, but not that close.<\/p>\n

“It’s like man or buddy, there is often this male-male addressed term that says, ‘I’m your friend but not much more than your friend,'” said Kiesling, whose research focuses on language and masculinity.<\/p>\n

Kiesling identifies any number of uses of the word, as well as its frequency of usage among and between genders. The word’s been traced back quite a ways, though it caught on in the current fashion, evidently, in Fast Times at Ridgemont High<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, now I’m going to be incredibly sensitive about when I use it …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A linguistic study of the word “dude” among, well, dudes. Kiesling says in the fall edition of American Speech that the word derives its power from something he calls cool…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12051,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/word_dude.html","url_meta":{"origin":6895,"position":0},"title":"Word, dude!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Dec-07 12:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A list of linguistic coincidences -- words that mean the same things in completely unrelated languages....","rel":"","context":"In "Writing and Language"","block_context":{"text":"Writing and Language","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/writing-and-language"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15478,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/01\/word-homey.html","url_meta":{"origin":6895,"position":1},"title":"Word, Homey","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Aug-09 11:42pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest greatest college-level slang (from UCLA, at least). 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