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That's pretty much how some Asians call their siblings
Yeah, in Korea, if you are a boy and have an older sister, you have to call her "nuna". Your older brother "hyeong". If you are a girl, your older sister is "onni" and your older brother is "oppa" (which also carries the unfortunate sexual connotation like calling someone "daddy" in English.) Thankfully at least all younger siblings are "dongsaeng"s. No wonder shit gets translated like this.
Ahh yeah, you also have to use these terms with your friends that are older and younger than you. If any Korean tells you someone is their sister or brother and it seems unlikely, it's because they mean that they are their older or younger friends, but the only person that Koreans actually call "friend" (chingu) are people the same age as them.
I've always struggled explaining this to people. I was taken aback for a long time in that one of the first questions upon meeting someone new was how old I was. I didn't understand that it's embedded within the language to establish this.
I read an interesting linguistics essay once that asserted nobody is fluent in Korean because the vocabulary changes as you age. I don't agree with the thesis, but found it intriguing nonetheless.
(Also, I was there in the nineties. I've heard that agashi has since become a word one doesn't want to use. When and how did that happen?)
Hahaha! "Agashi" is fine if you're not being creepy about it.
It's like title and first name, right? Like the way English speakers will say "uncle John" you would call your grandmother "grandma $firstname"?
Pretty much just the title. You wouldn't use the name of an elder or superior.
Edit: I'm speaking directly of Korean. I think your comment was related to Asia in general and I didn't follow the response lines correctly.
Oh ok. Thanks for informing me.
Chicken Wing is the preferred nickname both ways between myself and my younger brother. No clue how it started exactly.
For us it's Gollum. Girls and boys alike. Everyone is Gollum.
I call my sister 'sis' because it's gender affirming for her.
When I was five or so, my older sister invented the word "cosweb", convinced gullible-little-me it was the worst thing ever, and called me that for (what felt like at the time) months. She eventually just stopped. I didn't figure it out until I was in grade six or something.
I call my older brother shinny piece of shit and my sister I just say something that the same level of mean as: wasup toothless (she has teeth so it's not really an insult but it's meant to be)
Oddly, I've started calling my sister's sis and brother's bro rather recently. 'It saves time on texts' is my reasoning.
I think it might be laziness mixed with too much fan translated manga / manhwa with a dash of IDGAF.
"Rather Recently" is a weird nickname, especially if you gave it to yourself, but I respect your hermaphroditic energy.
If there is a preamble of any kind, it's "Dude" followed by a story of some kind. But usually it's just like... Stream of consciousness. Like. A text will be "so, this thing happened." Or we send memes. That's it. Sometimes we say "hey".
Depending on the specific sibling dynamic, the following is also acceptable:
"Hey dickweed!"
"Fuck off. Alright what do you want?"