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It's weird to think that when our parents were kids, gay meant happy, amirite?
by Anonymous12 years ago
No, it's not weird that language developed and evolved. There are thousands of examples.
by Anonymous12 years ago
Well, my parents weren't growing up in the fifties, when it became a widely used term for homosexuality, but language changes.
by Anonymous12 years ago
And fag meant cigarette.
by Anonymous12 years ago
And thong meant flip flops
by Anonymous12 years ago
Fag still means cigarette in the UK ;)
by Anonymous12 years ago
I got in a fight with a kid on the playground when I was little because I insisted it meant happy, but they were telling me it was a bad word.
by Anonymous12 years ago
"Oh, no no, it's cool, I'm taking it back."
by Anonymous12 years ago
That's not weird. In primary school we'd sometimes come across the word gay, meaning happy, in a story or poem. Everyone else laughed, which I thought was unnecessary and immature.
by Anonymous12 years ago
when my parents were growing up, "gay" meant "homosexual" just as much as it does today.
by Anonymous12 years ago
My grandma named my my mom's middle name gay to mean happy but now sge regrets it. :/
by Anonymous12 years ago
I read the Secret Garden in the third grade and they used the word queer (strange in this case) a lot. I didn't know what it meant in modern times, so I used it thinking I sounded smart, but I ended up getting my recess taken away for a week, because it was a "bad word".
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