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- From: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au (Bunweasel)
- Newsgroups: alt.usage.english
- Subject: Re: I'm so gay
- Message-ID: <9527@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 12:20:41 GMT
- References: <4644@sersun1.essex.ac.uk>
- Sender: news@cs.uq.oz.au
- Reply-To: michaeln@cs.uq.oz.au
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland
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- >> Is the original meaning of "gay" lost forever? Would it be futile
- >> to wrestle it back from oblivion?
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- You can use it with much of its original meaning.
- You just need to do it with a gay smirk.
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- >important to you to have a word, have silly on me. See if you
- >can make do with its orignal meaning, because, of course, I don't
- >intend its contemporary meaning.
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- Indeed, a word with a silly history. (thinks: this should appease both Camps)
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- -m.
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