Use of the word in an informal setting is all right, however, I am with Vetri in the request that some formalities be observed on a public platform like this list, where, even when you are replying a message, you are addressing every member.
Personallly, I wouldn't even like to be addressed as "associeates", I don't like the corporate feel the word entails, but I can't be too choosy about such things, and I don't like being in a teacher's role on the list. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vetrivel Murugan, Adhimoolam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [AI] Difficulty in sending mail > Hi everyone, > > Could we be a bit careful while addressing a particular individual or > group? > The word Dude is actually used in negative sense and I don't think that it > is appropriate to use it in a forum like this. The word carries the > following meanings according to the American heritage dictionary. I think > that we can address to other queries in a bit civilized way. and there are > millions and millions of such civilized words available to address group > members and Sanjay in this case raised a genuine issue and his dignity > should be respected while responding to him. > > 1. noun. Informal. An Easterner or city person who vacations on a ranch > in > the West. > > > > 2. Informal. A man who is very fancy or sharp in dress and demeanor. > > > > 3. Slang. > > A man; a fellow. > > dudes. Persons of either sex. > > > > 4. transitive verb. duded, duding, dudes. Slang. To dress elaborately > or > flamboyantly: got all duded up for the show. > > > > 5. interjection. Slang. Used to express approval, satisfaction, or > congratulations. > > > > 7. Our Living Language Cowboys and the Wild West are indelibly set in the > minds of many as typical of Americaan association borne out by several > common Modern English words that originated in the speech of the > 19th-century western United States. One is dude, now perhaps most familiar > as a slang term with a wide range of uses (including use as an all-purpose > interjection for expressing approval: "Dude!"). Originally it was applied > to > fancy-dressed city folk who went out west on vacation. In this usage it > first appears in the 1870s. The origin of the word is not known, but a > number of other cowboy terms were borrowed by early settlers from American > Spanish. These include buckaroo, corral, lasso, mustang, ranch, rodeo, and > stampede. Buckaroo, interestingly, is an example of a word borrowed twice: > it is an Americanized form of Spanish vaquero, which also made it into > English as vaquero, a cowboy. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "amit bhattt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 4:44 PM > Subject: Re: [AI] Difficulty in sending mail > > > Hello dude, > Seems, you are accessing your yahoo mail account direct from the site. > Some > time back one or two members of our group were also facing the same snag. > Anyway, you don't have any option but to fill it. > Take help of any sighted person and this will be rectified. > > -- > Thanks, > > Amit Bhatt > Voice-Off: 1-800-566-4604 Ext 560 > Mob: +91 935-006-3109 > > "A player that makes a team great is more valuable than a great player" > > > Quoting Sanjay Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi Friends, >> I recently created a yahoo account. Whenever I compose and send a >> mail, It is displaying a compose varification code which I cannot >> see. >> How to get rid of it? >> >> To unsubscribe send a message to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject >> unsubscribe. >> >> To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other >> changes, please visit the list home page at >> >> http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Top Online CJ Programs > Get your Associate or Bachelor criminal justice degree while you work. > http://tags.bluebottle.com/fc/MhtYWUjFdpoM0Fqv8861knwin9EGn9JfDSWqm/ > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with > the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please > visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in > > > To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the subject unsubscribe. > > To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, > please visit the list home page at > http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in To unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe. To change your subscription to digest mode or make any other changes, please visit the list home page at http://accessindia.org.in/mailman/listinfo/accessindia_accessindia.org.in
