Vinny Wrote:You're making one half of the argument. You're telling me definitions change, which I have already conceded- sure they do.Did you miss the word on the top of the list "Gay"
But it's not necessarily simply because one group of people use the word in a particular way. Heck, just because a bunch of hippies started saying "radical" did not establish a new definition for the term. The original definition remained alongside the newer colloquial use.
But the problem with you and your kind is that you're not willing to let the original sit alongside yours. You don't even acknowledge the existence of people who take the original definition to be valid. You just steamroll over them and unilaterally install your definition as the one true definition and all others as false.
So while I DO accept the first half of your argument: That definitions can change- I can't accept the second part- that you can change the meaning of words by force and deny any other definition
Because that word was adopted by the LGBT communities to refer to themselves. It originally meant happy.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/...omosexual/
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
