I am so tired and disgusted that the word “gay” has been forced on American society by militant homosexual activists.
Homosexuals are homosexual, not “gay!” And there is nothing gay about being homosexual!
The English language is specific: call homosexuals “homosexual,” America!
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Taxman
If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
Don't ask me what I want it for
Mm, another person with a very poor knowledge of how language works.
Language changes with usage. If people use gay to mean homosexual, gay means homosexual.
The word 'nice' meant accurate before it meant pleasant, and it meant stupid before it meant accurate.
The English language is one of the least specific in the world.
I'll call them homosexuals sometimes, but it's too long a word. You have to say something shorter, so it's better to call them gays, than poofs, or an even worse word.
My father used to say the same, about them stealing the word, but he didn't know the full story. Gay meant "bright, happy, joyful", but it also had a more adult meaning, even in the old days. Indeed we may say gay had a sexual meaning, before it had a homosexual meaning.
'Fast-forward to the 19th century and the word gay referred to a woman who was a prostitute and a gay man was someone who slept with a lot of women (ironically enough), often prostitutes. Also at this time, the phrase “gay it” meant to have sex.http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/02/how-gay-came-to-mean-homosexual/
Another word: in Shakespeare's day, abused meant "deceived".
English is, like all living languages, flexible. It is not "specific"; your dictionary gets updated every year, even though you may just be looking at an old one.
So... Do you think that "jazz" should still mean screwing, and the appropriation of the word for a style of music was forced upon us by militant musician activists?
For that matter, was "screwing" as a euphemism for, "fucking" forced on us by militant sexually active teenagers? Should it still mean "inserting a screw to join two pieces of wood"?
You must be really pissed off about, "scat!"
Are you also pissed off about, "pissed off"? Would you rather it still meant, "a dog taking a leak to distract and escape the area of another dog?"
How about "leak"? WHERE WILL IT END? TELL ME! WHERE WILL IT END?
...and if you think they can't be gay, the Taxman will call on you , o fundies!
The IRS already own God, you know.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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