Americans say "boss" (like 'dude') too?
I thought it was a Mumbai thing.
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Not as common as in Mumbai. In American parlance I generally hear it from services workers eg valets.
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I find "sir" particularly fascinating, since it has moved from being a title of nobility, to a title used when speaking to authority figures, to a title used *by* authority figures when speaking to non-authority figures.
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"Chief." If you want to pick a fight, you say "friend." Joe Biden apparently says "Jack."
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See Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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I like when South Africans say bru
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