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razzleccentricHow 'gay' became children's insult of choice (the UK viewpoint).
If you play any kind of MMORPG, you've had to put up a million six adolescent nitwits calling all kinds of things and situations they don't like "gay" - using that word the way I'd call something bogus (yes, I'm that old), stupid, or crappy. In the last two years I don't think I've *ever* heard a random player online say "gay" with the meaning intended to be "homosexual".
Vive l'anthropologie linguistique!
If you play any kind of MMORPG, you've had to put up a million six adolescent nitwits calling all kinds of things and situations they don't like "gay" - using that word the way I'd call something bogus (yes, I'm that old), stupid, or crappy. In the last two years I don't think I've *ever* heard a random player online say "gay" with the meaning intended to be "homosexual".
Vive l'anthropologie linguistique!
