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To: laweeks
Language change is just "nature's way" of playing telephone but over time.

What is the strangest change in a word’s meaning?

27 posted on 12/14/2018 11:41:21 AM PST by Aevery_Freeman (Your Hatred for my white skin makes me a Racist how?)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

I nominate ‘gay’ for the list.

In the current vernacular ‘gay’ means absolutely nothing that it meant 20-30 years ago. That is quite a transition.


33 posted on 12/14/2018 12:47:51 PM PST by ByteMercenary (Healthcare Insurance is *NOT* a Constitutional right.)
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