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Originally Posted by spreadsheet
The word "GAY" getting hijacked - not so long ago it was a word used in poetry and language - then the likes of Larry Grayson et al helped hijack the word.
Regardless of what is going on in current affairs etc I object to the word itself being hijacked and find this manipulation of the English language repugnant
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You may want to learn a bit of history surrounding the word Gay
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The word had started to acquire associations of immorality by 1637 and was used in the late 17th century with the meaning "addicted to pleasures and dissipations.
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The use of gay to mean "homosexual" was in origin merely an extension of the word's sexualised connotation of "carefree and uninhibited", which implied a willingness to disregard conventional or respectable sexual mores
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By the mid-20th century, gay was well established in reference to hedonistic and uninhibited lifestyles
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so you see it is by no means a modern "hijacking" of a word
by homosexuals.If anything it is a misuse by straight people
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay