Hi, machan and machi....:)

Hi dbu, well we call our friends by their first names usually. There are nicknames for a few. One friend is known as 'Bandit' because he lost half his arm in a meat machine (that's how he was introduced to me as), my man calls his workers 'moron' in English so they might not actually understand what it means. A lot of my male friends call me 'agapi mou' which tranlates as my love, or 'moro mou' which is my baby, but are encouraged to use my actual name. The term used to address a group of adult friends is 'pethia mou' which means my children. So it's generally just names and terms of affection. Any idea why words are underlined in blue?

hello dbu! well its nice to know that you treat your friends there are relatives...:-) here in my place, there's so many ways to address a friend...depends on how close you are or depends on a person itself... i hear my husband calling some of his friends as 'bok', 'tol (short for utol - a street language for brother) some also uses 'pare' or 'bai' (in cebuano) with me, i use to call my friends from school in their nicknames...but sometimes i do give them pet names...hehe and some girls also called each other as 'sis' (for sister) and now i have a friend who calls me 'best' and i do call her that way as well...for we feel that we are already best of friends now... have a nice day!

USing 'in-laws' for friends?? lol =D That will never happen here, because it's too far off from their actual status.. hehe ^_^ We dun have special nick for frenz, unless it's something we come up as a group, but never individually.. haha =D Within my army group of friends, there are some nicks going on, such as, BEar, shrek, destroyer, etc.. lol =D

Machan, This is a great topic. We at times called friends as Bro (Brother) Or in Bahasa Malaysia we will call 'kak' (for elderly girl) and 'bang' for (elderly guy). To be polite, we usually call 'Cik ( for girls = Ms) and Encik (for guys = Mr) However, the businessmand really have PR, they will call girls - Hi, lenglui (pretty girls) and sure this aunties and ladies will buy more...LOL

Machaan...Great ... Nice discussion.... You are always in the right way man... I hope machinachi is for girlie huh?... Machi.... When I see it in the today's top discussions I was taken aback a lil bit in excitement.... Keep up the good work,,... Cheers.... Have a nice day always.....

hi friend i too from tamil nadu dear. in madurai we use to call younger and same age friends as mapalai - i though you know its sister-in-law. elder age friends as mama - mother's brother relation ship. its very nice to meet you in this forum. first tamilan meeting in mylot.com. wish you all sucess.

Hi dbuthenkng,The ones that I like ,I refer to by name. The others I call outlaws Seeing I don't particularly care for them.

Hiya buddy. For friends whom are really close, I call them by their nicknames and for those whom aren't, I will address them by their respective names. What is babuji? Is it in Hindi or Tamil?

Most commonly it's by first name, but it all depends on how close the friends are as to how they call them. Nicknames here are usually close to their name... If we feel their close to us, we'll call them our brother or sister depending on if their male or female...

mean while u call machan\machi, we people use maapilla\maapu, which gives the same meaning... machan naan pakka chennai da.... happy to respond.. happy mylotting...

Hey I never knew that you were from Tamil nadu!. Since I'm from kerala, I understand tamil very well In malayalam, the similar word will be aliya or aliyo or we call them aliyoooooooo But I always called girls with respect & 'Da' seems to be cool word. Not the 'da' in tamil, but da in malayalam is the word used to call other guys especially friends; however, I use 'Da' as a shortform for Darling Happy Lotting

hello, we call friends by their nicknames especially if they are in the same age bracket. older friends we call ate (female) or kuya (male). how do i call you? i dont even know your nickname ann

We call our friends with the first names and sometimes we make fun of their names and enjoy a lot. Sometimes we do call them by their nick names and make fun of them. But I don't have any nick name.

I usually call my "Not So Close" friends by their names and my "Close" friends by either their first name or by some special name...which is known only to close friends. Great Topic though.....

Usually I just call them by their first names. Sometimes I tell them I love them too because I do love my friends. I dont' have a lot of friends left because of deaths and whatnot so I definitely treasure the few I have left.

Here In Our Place Bangalore(Karnataka) .. We Have A Size-able Tamil Population .. We Call Friends Maga(Son), And We Address Others With Respect Anna(Elder Brother), Akka (Elder Sister) .. A Nice Discussion .. But IS this Type Of Discussions Allowed On Mylot ..

hi dbutheking here in the US we usually call our friends by'there first names,like Bob or Bill or Anne orDelores, and older friends by mrs so and so or mr. so and so. My sons two friends I call Mike David and Micheal as they are both MIkes and it would be confusing. Some here call me by my first name Patsie and some Mrs. hatley, just depends i guess.we are a bit more informal than some countries i know.

Hi dbutheking! I don't know have you started this discussion seriously or for fun. But we used to call our friend differently for fun. Sometime we call 'Raja' to our friend, once we started to call them like girls in our regional language. Most of the time I prefer to call my friends by his nickname, don’t like to call them by mr./ms./mrs.I used to study in my regional language, so all our group was from middle class and in our time most of the people used their real name. No nick name system was their. But right now i love nickname like Sid, Avi. Have a nice day! Cheers Ranvir

Hi dbu the king How was you're doing in your new place? So, I found this discussion of yours that I haven't responded! Hehehe.. In my country, we don't have and particular nickname for our friends, just call them their first name or the shortest and nice part of their name, for example, "Natalia" called "Nata" only. Sometimes a group of close friend, they call themselves BFF (Best Friend Forever), yeah, it's in English. For me, my name is Priscilla Angelia and my friend call me "PA" So, really there's no certain or common rule here. Waw, it's nice to know in your place, people call their friends as a relations (brother-in-law, sister-in-law)!