It sounds exactly like the word blood to me and AFAIK that's the origin. Sometimes it sounds more like 'blad' if we are speaking quickly or have a certain dialect.
Fam is like 'family', pretty easy.
'Mate' derives from a Germanic word meaning 'comrade', so it was before science had a foothold in the daily life of Anglo-Saxons.
Being called 'blud' or 'fam' is a bigger deal than you think - think about it, we're saying you're like our family or blood.
'Mate' doesn't exclusively refer to people who we care about. It can be used to be confrontational if you say it in the right way (which is why Americans really shouldn't use it.)
That said, it's nothing to concern yourself about. If you banged on about how detestable our slang is over here, you'd get wrecked.
Confirming. I'm alive but its no longer raining.
ReplyDeleteThe news came on at 9.
Am hoping this earns me a TV Guide Badge. I'm a good Brownie.
Oh my god.
DeleteYou can tell the time?!?!?!
Care to finish that sentence?
DeleteI did, blud. I was raised in England. We don't "tell time", we "tell the time".
DeleteWho is blud?
DeleteWhy don't you tell time that you tell the time? Do you think he'd mind? I was kind of assuming he already knew.
Blud is just a way of addressing someone informally, like 'mate' or 'fam'.
DeleteIt sounds like a noise I make when I mix up spreads trying to make a sandwich and involuntarily purge... informal nails it. Good job.
DeleteI can only assume Fam is an informal way to refer to Famine? Mate refers to anything made of Matter?
It sounds exactly like the word blood to me and AFAIK that's the origin. Sometimes it sounds more like 'blad' if we are speaking quickly or have a certain dialect.
DeleteFam is like 'family', pretty easy.
'Mate' derives from a Germanic word meaning 'comrade', so it was before science had a foothold in the daily life of Anglo-Saxons.
The laziest way to refer to people you're supposed to care about.
DeleteBeing called 'blud' or 'fam' is a bigger deal than you think - think about it, we're saying you're like our family or blood.
Delete'Mate' doesn't exclusively refer to people who we care about. It can be used to be confrontational if you say it in the right way (which is why Americans really shouldn't use it.)
That said, it's nothing to concern yourself about. If you banged on about how detestable our slang is over here, you'd get wrecked.
I can tell by the way you use it in reference to a total stranger.
DeletePardon me from trying to be welcoming. Would you prefer to be called wank-face?
DeleteIvan will do just fine, Sanna.
DeleteThank you, Maritza.
ReplyDeleteYeah, yeah.
DeleteThis is boring as balls.
ReplyDeleteHe said I'd make a status post. He never said I'd make an interesting one.
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