Disney Analyst
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Same in Canada.
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Disney CMs calling guests " Friends"?
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Same in Canada.
LittleBuford
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Where it makes sense not only because of the British connection, but also because of your Francophone population.
Disney Analyst
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SteveAZee
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UNCgolf
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Person, I guess. Folk is already plural.
They should just call everyone human. "Hello fellow humans!" "Excuse me, human."
It would add a fun bit of absurdity to CM interactions!
SteveAZee
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Might as well make it "Hello fellow sapiens" to make it interesting.
BuddyThomas
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Oh my God. I joined this board in 2013, and I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that this is the most insipid and ridiculous thread that I have ever seen on here and that includes the Katiebug thread.
Chi84
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The Katiebug thread wasn’t insipid . . .
What a sap!
MickeyLuv'r
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English somewhat lacks a good vocative singular noun.
Perhaps felllow?
Folks is often used as a vocative noun. Vocative means "direct address", as in Hey, folks, .... It is effectively a noun being used in the second person; normally nouns can only be third person.
Folk is generally considered to also be plural, as in city folk. It is a little weird.
Incidentally, I came across this NIH research paper about friendship. for the study the researchers asked groups of 6th graders to define friendship: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8128148/
"friendships are essentially mutual, not directional."
"Students overwhelmingly defined friendship as a mutual agreement to behave as friends toward one another, as a set of prescriptive and proscriptive behavioral norms. Many students emphasized that friends defend each other against harm, and phrases like “someone who sticks up for me” or “would never hurt me” almost always came up. '
"A friendship network is typically represented as a sociomatrix consisting of “1” (friend) and “0” (non-friend) scores. Any subsequent algebraic operations on such a matrix depend on two strong equivalence assumptions. First, all “1” scores are interchangeable; a friend is a friend. Second, all “0” scores are interchangeable; a non-friend is a non-friend. All kinds of non-friends – whether they are strangers, acquaintances, enemies, lovers, or family members – are treated as equivalent."
Participants described friendship like an honorary title with an expectation for mutuality. A girl (Tracy) remarked, “If you wanna title [someone] as a friend you could [but] normally like you’d expect to hear them say it back” or a boy (Steen) said “I made a point to become friends with them because they called me their friend” and another (Mark) added, “It has to go both ways.” And this expectation that the title is mutual is also expressed as a norm with social consequences. A girl (DeeDee) remarked, “If they consider you a friend and you don’t see yourself as their friend, it’s gonna cause a conflict. Then, the whole school ends up finding out.” The latter looks like a norm for reciprocation, but the pressure embodied in this norm derives from the essentially mutual nature of friendship. If one student wants to take on the title of friendship with another, but the second does not agree to do so, the friendship cannot be established and the desires of the first student are frustrated. In the eyes of our research subjects, this is a non-friendship, not a one-way friendship.
MickeyLuv'r
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A table from the study:
Table 1
Principal Component Loadings (N = 436). | PC1 | PC2 | PC3 |
|---|---|---|---|
ILike | − 0.389 | −2.799 | 0.640 |
LikesMe | − 1.212 | −2.618 | − 0.124 |
Reciprocity | 1.924 | 0.315 | 0.494 |
Homophily | 2.504 | 0.435 | − 0.138 |
Closure | 2.745 | 0.581 | − 0.063 |
NoHurt | −2.358 | 0.673 | 0.117 |
Secrets | −1.658 | 1.223 | 0.062 |
Support | −1.524 | 1.218 | 1.311 |
Defend | −1.849 | 1.107 | −1.133 |
Time | 1.131 | 0.117 | 1.686 |
Help | 0.687 | − 0.251 | −2.853 |
MickeyLuv'r
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able 2
Average Ranking of 11 Defining Features of Friendship (N = 436).Feature | Avg Rank | Question |
|---|---|---|
NoHurt | 4.799 | would never hurt me |
Defend | 4.873 | sticks up for me when others are against me |
LikesMe | 5.360 | likes me or cares about me |
Support | 5.397 | helps me feel better when I feel bad |
ILike | 5.598 | I like or care about |
Secrets | 5.934 | never tells anyone my secrets |
Time | 6.011 | spends a lot of time with me |
Reciprocity | 6.508 | calls me his/her friend |
Homophily | 6.798 | has much in common with me |
Help | 7.093 | helps me do things that I want (or need) to do |
Closure | 7.629 | is friends with my other friends (part of my group) |
MickeyLuv'r
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They also conclude:
The specific patterns of relational norms and structural expectations that we find here are robust across six sixth grade cohorts in the same city, but we do not argue that these specific patterns will hold true across all populations. It is notable that we examine students at the transition to adolescence because research has shown that the specific norms and expectations associated with the friend role change throughout the life course. For example, work in developmental psychology (e.g., Berndt, 1982; Bigelow, 1977; Hartup and Stevens, 1997) has examined how particular friendship expectations – such as shared interests and activities, demographic similarity, propinquity, reciprocity, behavioral norms, and emotional intimacy – change in importance from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood.6 These findings at other ages are consistent with our broad conclusions above. For example, Felmlee et al. (2012) studied behavioral norms associated with friendship for college students and found that these norms were weighted differently by men and women.
In fact, the apparent limitations above actually raise further challenges for the equivalence assumption: If respondents might define friendship differently depending on their gender, age, race, ethnicity, primary language, socioeconomic status, or neighborhood environment, then this demands further scrutiny of the standard assumption that friendship means the same thing across all of these differences.
We expect that variation from one context to another will appear primarily in the specific norms or expectations that are associated with the friend role as we find here for gender, but this is a topic for future research.
The specific patterns of relational norms and structural expectations that we find here are robust across six sixth grade cohorts in the same city, but we do not argue that these specific patterns will hold true across all populations. It is notable that we examine students at the transition to adolescence because research has shown that the specific norms and expectations associated with the friend role change throughout the life course. For example, work in developmental psychology (e.g., Berndt, 1982; Bigelow, 1977; Hartup and Stevens, 1997) has examined how particular friendship expectations – such as shared interests and activities, demographic similarity, propinquity, reciprocity, behavioral norms, and emotional intimacy – change in importance from childhood through adolescence and into adulthood.6 These findings at other ages are consistent with our broad conclusions above. For example, Felmlee et al. (2012) studied behavioral norms associated with friendship for college students and found that these norms were weighted differently by men and women.
In fact, the apparent limitations above actually raise further challenges for the equivalence assumption: If respondents might define friendship differently depending on their gender, age, race, ethnicity, primary language, socioeconomic status, or neighborhood environment, then this demands further scrutiny of the standard assumption that friendship means the same thing across all of these differences.
We expect that variation from one context to another will appear primarily in the specific norms or expectations that are associated with the friend role as we find here for gender, but this is a topic for future research.
MickeyLuv'r
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Then we all raise our hands and yell, "Aaaaaaghhhh!"
MickeyLuv'r
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I gather you're not a sociologist or lexicographer?
Tell me about it friend.
I'm a reptilian.
Someone please tell Mickey that there is no reciprocity on my part when he calls me 'pal.'
And tell the world I don't find them 'dear' like they do me when they address their letters to me.
And tell the world I don't find them 'dear' like they do me when they address their letters to me.