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Hey Man, Gender Norms, and Saying Hello in English.

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Hey Lindsay how are you? I'm doing awesome Aubrey how's it going?

Wonderful I'm great I have a question for you. Okay I'm ready. This is related to an amazing question we got from a listener. Would you ever say, I missed you, man? I missed you man to a male friend?

There's only one male friend I might say that too, but I probably wouldn't say it in those exact words

So say it a different way right? Yeah, I might use man with him a very close male friend in certain moments but that's exactly what we're going to get into today.

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