+204 It's weird to think that when our parents were kids, gay meant happy, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, it's not weird that language developed and evolved. There are thousands of examples.

by Anonymous 13 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 Anonymous 13 years ago

And fag meant cigarette.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

And thong meant flip flops

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Fag still means cigarette in the UK ;)

by Anonymous 13 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 Anonymous 13 years ago

"Oh, no no, it's cool, I'm taking it back."

by Anonymous 13 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 Anonymous 13 years ago

when my parents were growing up, "gay" meant "homosexual" just as much as it does today.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

My grandma named my my mom's middle name gay to mean happy but now sge regrets it. :/

by Anonymous 13 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".

by Anonymous 13 years ago