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Even though I don't expect you to come back in actually see if anyone has responded to your request since you're posted as a "Guest", referring to us as "Dudes" is kind of disrespectful.

Many of us here are of the older generation with backgrounds that earn us some respect. Also some of our posters are from other countries and calling them "Dude" can be a little offensive to them.

I recommend you look into taking some kind of class on etiquette.

Excuse me if I tag on to your comment. I complained when my wife started calling me dude... but she was quite willing to compromise... she would drop the 'e' off the end. Somehow I still feel I got the short end of the deal.

Actually the term dude defines ranch hands (or city folk playing cowboy) who have no experience in what they are doing. I personally am 61 and have been in Engineering like before you could walk. It does not bother me because you use the term in "friendly" terms in American colloquial language, but we have Engineers from all over the world here who might take it as very insulting.

I once worked with a group of Engineers from Japan, who even though they knew English fluently... How do you explain the word "BULLSHIT" to them? It isn't in the Japanese/English dictionary.

You have been given a thread for what you are looking for. Follow for your needs and if it doesn't work, come back to us.

I agree with the responder. Referring to fellow engineers as dudes is unprofessional and disrespectful. I think more the former than the latter, but both are inappropriate.

Al

Hello alex g

It is evident that the "guest" who asked the question is NOT an Engineer.

Perhaps English is not the first language for the question asker, either.

I didn't bother to stand on ceremony, because it is evident that the question asker probably was not intending to arrive back, or else he/she would have registered.

From:http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dude

<"dude

(dd, dyd)

n.1. Informal An Easterner or city person who vacations on a ranch in the West.2. Informal A man who is very fancy or sharp in dress and demeanor.3. Slang a. A man; a fellow.b. dudes Persons of either sex.tr.v. dud·ed, dud·ing, dudes Slang To dress elaborately or flamboyantly: got all duded up for the show.interj. Slang Used to express approval, satisfaction, or congratulations.

[Origin unknown.]Our Living Language Cowboys and the Wild West are indelibly set in the minds of many as typical of Americaan association borne out by several common Modern English words that originated in the speech of the 19th-century western United States. One is dude, now perhaps most familiar as a slang term with a wide range of uses (including use as an all-purpose interjection for expressing approval: "Dude!"). Originally it was applied to fancy-dressed city folk who went out west on vacation. In this usage it first appears in the 1870s. The origin of the word is not known, but a number of other cowboy terms were borrowed by early settlers from American Spanish. These include buckaroo, corral, lasso, mustang, ranch, rodeo, and stampede. Buckaroo, interestingly, is an example of a word borrowed twice: it is an Americanized form of Spanish vaquero, which also made it into English as vaquero, a cowboy.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

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Noun	1.	dude - an informal form of address for a man; "Say, fellow, what are you doing?"; "Hey buster, what's up?"buster, fellowadult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus"
2.	dude - a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearancedandy, fashion plate, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, clotheshorse, swellcoxcomb, cockscomb - a conceited dandy who is overly impressed by his own accomplishmentsmacaroni - a British dandy in the 18th century who affected Continental mannerisms; "Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" adult male, man - an adult person who is male (as opposed to a woman); "there were two women and six men on the bus""> Kind Regards....

Sparks...

the guy is definitely American... although very young. He might be an Engineer with a degree in 2007 but I doubt it... NOT a non=English speaker. He doesn't have the capability of communicating with the professional world,