Re: Word used more than once

On 5/7/06, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> Joe wrote:
> > Your dictionary isn't quite right, at least when it comes to
> > rightpondian English.  Older people will use 'queer' and 'gay' for 'odd'
> > and 'happy, bright', younger people won't.
> >
> That's also true here, though with ever decreasing frequency-- even most
> oldsters are losing a lot of their cluelessness :-))))
>
The worm has turned. My teenagers use "queer" to mean "zany, odd", and
"gay" to mean "bad" or "stupid" as well as "homosexual". --larry

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