"MATE"????

Se há palavra que odeio e que se usa a rodos aqui pelo North UK, é "mate"! Eles usam-na quando se referem a namorado e amigo. Mas sempre me faz lembrar os programas do David Attenborough, falando da vida na selva... If you get what I mean...

Não é ter mente suja, mas de facto "my mate" faz-me sempre lembrar "truca-truca" no gajo...

Fui á wikipédia e não ajudou muito:

"Mate is widely used among men in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Ireland to address male strangers as a nicety. In other English-speaking countries, such as the United States and Canada , mate is generally seen as referring to a person's spouse (when used as a noun) or a zoological term for copulation (when used as a verb). However words like classmate, roommate and shipmate, which remain in common usage around the world, keep the original meaning. In the sense of referring to a friend the term is informal and is a mild endearment, though it can be used in ironical ways as an accompaniment to an aggressive or rude statement.".

Ainda bem que sou gaja... I wouldn't like to be someone's mate... FOGE!!!!