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Originally posted by navane
Just as a point, in Britain - Bristol, England to be specific - I was routinely called "luv" ( as in, a cab driver saying, "Where to, luv?") and "babber" ( as in, "Awlrite me babber?" )
luv = love
babber = baby/friend
Awlrite me babber = Hey, how's it going? ("Alright my friend?")
Heh, if you all are having this much trouble with "hon" and "sweetie," you haven't seen the world. 
I luved liven in Bristle, I did. Tho, mauve yer in Californiawl now. I luved me those cabbies; them blokes is mint. When I wonna lern the krekt waiter's peak Brissle, I ast them, I does. Them smart innum?
Whas fink of ee then me babber?
.....Kelly 
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I've been around.
I'm just saying that where decadance lives (and you corroborate this), things like "sweetie", etc. are commonly used.
Where I am, in Oklahoma, at least in my circles, it is considered something that you'd use condescendingly.