The term BUDDY should be PARTNER

[tonka97]

Good point. There is too much where people get offended/upset about that really is trivial. Some ignore things, others respond with sarcasm or cynicism, yet others take things too seriously.

It had more to do with nausea than political correctness.

 

[Paco]

I just saw this thread and only read the first page then skipped to the end to post, so forgive me if someone already suggested Dive Companion. It could be used in all companion systems, like hiking, etc. Yeah, that´t it... companion. I like it. I´ll run in by a coupld of my dive buddies (woops, dive companions) and see what they think.

 

[tonka97]

Eat some food, take some vitamins and grow a thicker skin. One of our problems today is that everybody seems to have so much time to take the time to find something so meaningless to complain about, but no time to help others and truly do something that can make our world a better place for others, and really matters (not like a term used in diving. Use the time you spend thinking up stuff like this helping with a soup kitchen, cleaning up a reef, habitat for humanity, reading to school kids, etc..

Nobody was sitting around the good-ole-buddy water cooler when they came up with the term buddy and saying "hey diving is a good-ole-buddy club and we don't like outsiders so let's call your dive partner a buddy just to aggravate them".

It is a word, it means precisely what it means "the person that you dive with". Get over it and move on.

Here is a test to take before you start out on a mission next time.

"Will this make somebody's life better"

Call them partner versus buddy ----- NO
Donate clothing ----- YES
Help build them a home -----YES
Read a story to a child -----YES

And so on.

Step, step, step. Okay, I am off my box now.

The soup kitchen just paged you; are you still wasting time on your computer??:shakehead

 

[tonka97]

Do you want to partner up?

Shall we be mates on this dive?

Both better than:

would you be my buddie???

 

[altitudemike]

So if I have this right I could go up to do an altitude dive in Brokback Mountain lake with a buddie but come back down with a partner? I'll have to pass!!

 

[Jeremy Bouwman]

Do you want to partner up?

Shall we be mates on this dive?



:11: absolutely not!!! i'll be your buddy though. that just sounds bad IMO

 

[Walter]

Geeze, "companion" is worse than "partner."

 

[GLENFWB]

The term 'buddy' sucks IMO; it has an associated 'good ole boy' connotation that is sexist and demeaning. It may work with describing adolescent boys' friends, but it should end there.

Suggest beginning to use the term 'partner' and see if the 'buddy' relic can be swept into the dust bin.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/buddy

bud·dy:...
1. A good friend; a comrade.
2. A partner, especially one of a pair or team associated under the buddy system.
3. Friend or comrade; chum. Used as a form of familiar address, especially for a man or boy: Watch it, buddy.
intr.v. bud·died, bud·dy·ing, bud·dies
To associate as a buddy or buddies: buddied around with the older guys.
Phrasal Verb:
buddy up
To ingratiate oneself, as by presuming friendship: buddied up to the coach in hopes of making the team.

Welcome to the offspring of politcal correctness run-a-muck! Choosing a distant meaning, as opposed to the first two says more about you then the word. A wise English professor once told me, Words do not have meaning so much as they have "usage". If you use the word in a "sexist or demeaning" way, shame on you. Continue to use it in the way it has been used for many years and it conveys exactly what it is...ie., reference your own definition, specifically #2.

 

[tonka97]

Isn't a "wise English professor" an oxymoron?:huh:



Would you be my adolescent male dive chum, errrrrrrrr, buddy??:bang:

 

[ClayJar]

Ever since Earth: Final Conflict, I've been afraid of "Companions".