and will you please make it clearer for me what's different in a "sweetheart"???
as to "amigo"... well, in Argentina (and among those of my generation at least), you give the category of "boyfriend" (or girlfriend, in the case of men) to a guy (/a girl) you're dating steadily -exclusively- and have dated for a while... before that, he's just "someone you're dating". (Note: the exact dating time necessary to turn from "someone-you're-dating" to "boyfriend"/ "girlfriend" is unknown and usually different for men and women: we women tend to call them boyfriends before they've even started noticing they've really been dating us for a long time...). there are of course people with "friends with rights", some who can name their ambiguous relations as "amigovios" but at least in my case, be them male or female, "FRIENDS will be friends" (i.e., people I love and who love me, but we're NEITHER romantically NOR sexually involved).
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