mobyduck648
Sailor, software engineer, musician, terminally online.
Englishman in Wales.
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Cake day: July 5th, 2023
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Mate doesn’t pluralise well though, ‘I’m going out with my mates’ is fine but ‘hi mates’ sounds wrong. Also a lot of it is in the delivery, calling someone ‘mate’ can be anything from friendly to neutral to hostile depending on the tone and the words which precede it.