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Republicans wear ear bandages in 'solidarity' with Trump (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

This is like saying “When I say ‘that’s gay’, I don’t mean gay as in homosexual, I mean gay as in stupid”.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think it's a bit different when the word has been totally abandoned for the previous use. I don't know anyone who uses 'lame' or 'dumb' to refer to people with those disabilities. It's practically an archaic meaning at this point. Gay is still most popular as a reference to sexuality.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

How do you think they got to be archaic?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

New words were found for the original meaning that were less pejorative, causing the slang to take over?