Re: query: distorted languages?
| From: | Padraic Brown <pbrown@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 30, 2000, 16:13 |
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On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Matt McLauchlin wrote:
>This happens all the time, not just due to holocausts. Compare the rapid
>vanishing of the word "gay" meaning anything other than "admirer of the Pet
>Shop Boys." A second meaning of a word becomes so shocking or joke-inducing
>that all meanings except the stigmatized one vanish.
>
>It doesn't even have to do with the same word all the time. When was the
>last time you heard someone get described as "niggardly"?
>
The last time someone was compelled to resign from the DC Government.
;) ;)
What a little mess that was!
Padraic.