I think I’ve called everyone bro except for my actual brother.
When I was five or so, my older sister invented the word “cosweb”, convinced gullible-little-me it was the worst thing ever, and called me that for (what felt like at the time) months. She eventually just stopped. I didn’t figure it out until I was in grade six or something.
I call my sister “lil sis” even tho she is way older than me, maybe I am just stupid 💀
Or a hentai protagonist
This is what I call my BIL
Game is game 😭
Chicken Wing is the preferred nickname both ways between myself and my younger brother. No clue how it started exactly.
For us it’s Gollum. Girls and boys alike. Everyone is Gollum.
I’ve called a lot of people bro, but never my brother lmao
me and my wife call each other bro all the time
I call my brothers bruh, bro, guy, buddy, pal. But bro is 90% of the time.
I’ve had to tell my daughter not to call me ‘bro.’ Not putting up with that.
Would you prefer bruncle?
To paraphrase Captain Janeway, “protocol with your friends aside, I don’t like being addressed as bro. Pop is acceptable in a crunch but I prefer Dad.”
Why do you hate fun?
Because I’m a father and it’s my job to ruin fun.
My husband had the same talk with me.
That’s pretty much how some Asians call their siblings
I think a lot of this weird writing comes from anime and manga where they translate it like this from Japanese
It’s like title and first name, right? Like the way English speakers will say “uncle John” you would call your grandmother “grandma $firstname”?
Pretty much just the title. You wouldn’t use the name of an elder or superior.
Edit: I’m speaking directly of Korean. I think your comment was related to Asia in general and I didn’t follow the response lines correctly.
Oh ok. Thanks for informing me.
Yeah, in Korea, if you are a boy and have an older sister, you have to call her “nuna”. Your older brother “hyeong”. If you are a girl, your older sister is “onni” and your older brother is “oppa” (which also carries the unfortunate sexual connotation like calling someone “daddy” in English.) Thankfully at least all younger siblings are "dongsaeng"s. No wonder shit gets translated like this.
Ahh yeah, you also have to use these terms with your friends that are older and younger than you. If any Korean tells you someone is their sister or brother and it seems unlikely, it’s because they mean that they are their older or younger friends, but the only person that Koreans actually call “friend” (chingu) are people the same age as them.
I’ve always struggled explaining this to people. I was taken aback for a long time in that one of the first questions upon meeting someone new was how old I was. I didn’t understand that it’s embedded within the language to establish this.
I read an interesting linguistics essay once that asserted nobody is fluent in Korean because the vocabulary changes as you age. I don’t agree with the thesis, but found it intriguing nonetheless.
(Also, I was there in the nineties. I’ve heard that agashi has since become a word one doesn’t want to use. When and how did that happen?)
Hahaha! “Agashi” is fine if you’re not being creepy about it.
My sister once got my attention from a distance by shouting “HEY, DIPSHIT!”
Folks without siblings think it’s like a built in best friend, which it is, but it’s one forged in blood, insults, and lies
Idk it’s less a best friend and more a really long built trauma bond in my experience
Reading through all these comments I’m sorry we all went through this with our siblings but I’m glad I’m not the only one, I feel a little less broken & alienated. But what a tragic waste of such a close relative and strong relationship bond, for it all to be nothing but trauma and anger and fighting.
Yeah I don’t want to downplay how much I love her. She’s one of the coolest people I know and I’m so proud to get to be her big sister, but yeah the crux of our relationship is that nobody else can really relate to my childhood and early adulthood. Nobody else grew up with our parents and that’s huge
I dunno - none of my brothers are really my best friend level now we’re adults. we’re friends, we enjoy time together, but not my best friend, not the person I go to with fears and worries, hopes and dreams.
but absolutely best “grabs a shovel and a car when I say I have a body to bury” emergency backup. the brother who doesn’t respond for 2 weeks to a social invite (“hey, sorry I missed your message about last week”) is always there when I say I have an emergency.
Exactly - All best friends are forged from blood, insults, and lies, and siblings are no exception.
It’s like if you went up to a best mate like, “Hey, Best Friend”
There is only one man who can pull that off
Sauce?
Aoi Todo from Jujutsu Kaisen
I made my best friend playing backyard football after he intentionally beamed me in the balls.
As someone with brothers, how do we greet each other? With violence.
We are out there!
I call my youngest sister ‘lil sis’. But then she mangled saying ‘big brother’ one day and it came out as ‘big bug’ and that was way into adulthood. It used to always be ‘big brother’ until that one fateful day.
for me it’s either a curt exchange of mutually understood grunts, or
“DEAREST SIBLING, how wonderful to see you! How are–”
“fucking stop.”It’s amazing how little effort it takes to piss off a sibling. You know exactly what buttons to push. Other times it’s like they’ve built up a tolerance to your bullshit so it doesn’t work. One time I farted in my brothers face four times while he was playing on his Nintendo DS and he only acknowledged me because of the amount of farts. “How the hell can you fart that many times in a row?!”
As my family is Vietnamese, not only do I adress my own elder siblings “brother” and “sister”, I even adress people like that that aren’t my actual siblings at all. Unless they’re older, in which case they’re “uncle” and “aunt”.
Although, I also grew up without my siblings around and am more removed in aged from them than they are from each other, so there is kind of a distance that a lot of siblings don’t have.
Noob where’s my controller
Oddly, I’ve started calling my sister’s sis and brother’s bro rather recently. ‘It saves time on texts’ is my reasoning.
I think it might be laziness mixed with too much fan translated manga / manhwa with a dash of IDGAF.
“Rather Recently” is a weird nickname, especially if you gave it to yourself, but I respect your hermaphroditic energy.
this gives Folgers incest ad vibes
