Anonymous wrote:They also call me "bro" and just about everyone else. Anyone can be a bro.

Bro used to be a thing guys called each other, as a short form of brother. The word seems to have morphed into something else entirely.

Are others observing this linguistic evolution?

I wish this was the only think I had to worry about...

I have heard this over the summer when we were in California. I think it's "bru." A reactionary word teens use for shortening their expression. Kinda like what the heck.

my 12 daughter calls me bro! I told it was anti-feminsit since the boys don't also use "sis" for each other. I knew she would find me very annoying and she stopped calling me bro to save herself a lecture on language and mysoginy

Cringy.

AYO

Anonymous wrote:H and I have been calling each other bro for years. He’s Mexican so I’ve always called him my Bromigo, and I love baked potatoes so he makes me Baked Brotatoes. We’re in our 40s.

I love this!

Anonymous wrote:Also, thank you for posting this because DD’s use of bro/bruh/gurl has been so constant that I have been sort of annoyed by it. Now that I know it’s fairly pervasive I will let the culture wax and wane and sort it out.

+1

And the local flavor du jour includes a particular specialization of a well-off HS whose (mostly white) male students have a certain air about them (haircut, clothes, shoes, speech, sport). They are called [insert HS name] Bros -- and it's generally derogatory. Everyone else falls within the bro/bruh/gurl category with no consistency to biological gender.

Like a PP, I'll be lost on the current lingo when the last one heads for college.

Whatever. Or is it what'ev's?

Anonymous wrote:H and I have been calling each other bro for years. He’s Mexican so I’ve always called him my Bromigo, and I love baked potatoes so he makes me Baked Brotatoes. We’re in our 40s.

We’d probably be friends in real life. My husband and I practically have our own language. Our teen is strait laced and barely uses slang.

Anonymous wrote:
Here's a good write up:

https://www.33rdsquare.com/what-is-bros-slang-for/

That’s an awesome article. Thanks for sharing!

My 1st graders call each other bro or bruh, girls and boys both. So it's got to be on its way out.

Here's a good write up:

https://www.33rdsquare.com/what-is-bros-slang-for/

My 13 year old uses both bruh and bro. Some of her sentences when referring to me go like this: "Bro thinks she is ...."

Anonymous wrote:My best friend, sister and I called each other “dude” all the time. It was the 80s. Dude=Bro of today

+100

Anonymous wrote:My teen told me “bruh” is not as common and it’s “bro.” 🤷🏻‍♀️

17 and 19 year old sons. It’s “bro” nowadays mostly.

My best friend, sister and I called each other “dude” all the time. It was the 80s. Dude=Bro of today