Posted by Lou Pilder on April 14, 2009, at 20:09:28
In reply to Re: Lou's request for clarification- bdy » Lou Pilder, posted by Phillipa on April 11, 2009, at 21:09:17
> Yup buddy and friend are the same. Phillipa
Phillipa,
You wrote,[...buddy and friend are the same...]
I am unsure as to what authority you may have used to state that, for {same} could generally mean that the things that are the same corrospond in a way so that the things that are the same are interchangable.
The word {buddy} is a word that I have a particular learning about from my background in fraternalism. This background could be unbeknownst to some because of the history of fraternal societies, sometimes called {secret societies}. These societies that predated the guilds in England were orginized for helping each other in times of need and were made up of people of similar occupation. Some of these were those that worked with stone or brick that were called the Masons, and those that worked in the fields or forests were called the Foresters, and those that did anything else were called, as I understand it, Odd Fellows.
The members shared what is known as fraternalism, comming from the Latin, fraternus or brotherhood, being a brother, or a frater.
Going beyond that definition was the type of brother that shared in a common activity. Those brothers were different from just being a frater of one in the orginization.
I do not like to talk about some of the ancient practices of fraternal orginizations. You see, the fraternal societies generally came from England and Europe to the United States and there was slavery then. And there was piracy. And there was plunder of the innocent. Those activities could end up with those working together in those activities to share in what they got in their shared activity, even in plunder.
Now those that did such things had a special name comming from what they called the spoils and that name {morphed}, as I understand it, to the word {buddy} before slavery was abolished. If you would like to know the name, you could email me if you like.
Lou
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