RE: B.C. And A.D.
October 8, 2012 at 1:42 pm
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2012 at 1:45 pm by Cyberman.)
(October 8, 2012 at 1:32 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Before the word gay was popular to slur homosexuals it merely ment "happy". So if words can change and they do I don't think gays should get bent out of shape if someone says "that is so gay".
Indeed, since at least the late 14th century (CE). Also "excellent person, noble lady, gallant knight," in Middle English. Interestingly, it also had connotations of "wanton, lewd, lascivious"; hence the now-extinct 19th century "gay-house" for brothel. Apparently the modern sense of the word, dating back to at least the 1920s and probably even fifty years earlier, "likely got a boost from the term gay cat, used as far back as 1893 in American English for "young hobo," one who is new on the road, also one who sometimes does jobs."
I frickin' love language.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=gay
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
