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Friday, September 2, 2011

"Bruddah, brother, bro, brah.."‏ 'Obama Da Dog' (Shabbat saturday's)

Obama da Dog guest blogs about her favorite words... Bruddah, Brother, Bro, Brah...
A couple of Bruddah's...

Hawai'i has a unique second language of Pidgin, it's a broken English that originally was a little bit of all immigrants, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Portuguese, etc.

 In Hawai'i  people call brothers, bruddah's, it's brother with a Hawai'ian flare ,but some people shorten bruddah to Brah. Many times men in Hawaii are addressed as brah, not bruddah, brother or bro but by the term brah.

I always feel a little uneasy calling a 300 lb local man, Brah? I think to myself is this guy going to pound the crap out of me for calling him a woman's undergarment? Calling a Man a Brah is the equivalent  of  calling a woman a Jock-strap. I guess it's OK, after all one mans brah is another woman's jock strap. Translated to, "so what who cares," call me anything you want, just don't call me brassiere...

As you can see we are in desperate need of guest bloggers... Therefore If you would like to express yourself about any subject you feel passionate about, please  feel  to submit a guest blog to dakinetalk. Please limit guest blogs between 200-500 words, along with a short bio and photo of yourself. Send all blog submissions to; jrsensei@hotmail.com  who knows your blog could go viral!

The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants on this blog site do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of the Publisher of Dakinetalk the blog, but they could? ;D)
Brother is a term used frequently all over America to mean a close friend, or someone whose practices the same religion could be a brother in the Lord. Bro is short for brother, makes sense.
If you would like to express yourself about any subject you feel passionate about, please  feel free to submit a guest blog to dakinetalk. Please limit guest blogs between 200-500 words, along with a short bio and photo of yourself. Send all blog submissions to; jrsensei@hotmail.com  who knows your blog could go viral!