Someone I live with insists on calling me "bro" and "dude", despite my repeated pleas for cessation, citing ideolect as a defence.

I get that "bro" and "dude" are part of their vocabulary, but it hurts. Am I in the wrong here?

P.S. Is this the right community for this kind of question?

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[–] 4 points 3 months ago*
  1. Yar aint wrong.
  2. correct /c/
  3. Straight up start call’m “baby,” “doll,” “girl,” “bitch,” “cunt,” “yapper,” etc. until they start getting offended. “Maybe you can now empathize why I don't liked to be ‘bro”d’? Truce?” Some folks only learn the hard way.
  4. Indefensible argument:

citing ideolect as a defence.
“You talk to your grandparents this way cunt?” e.g.

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