"I have no idea how they use the word in america. Do elaborate"
Sorry for not putting examples Rhiannon, I'm being tardy as usual!
a quick google found me these:
"yall are so gay for being racist i like ppl for who they are not by the color of there skin so yall can go fuck yalls self "
Rather a good example of how twisted-up language and meaning can become ;-) Fancy being called gay for being racist? I guess there's progress! I guess...
Apparently we in the UK have been slower to pick up on this one than we did skateboards and 'attitude'. In the US some say as far back as the 70's 'gay' was a general pejorative/derogatory term that was 'apart' from being homosexual although seems to be used in a strange parallel way (pejoratively). I do get the feeling that lately it's taking on a meaning all of it's own, just as 'happy, joyful' was beaten into submission by homosexually 'gay', maybe 'gay' will eventually mean 'crap' and 'homosexual's will be called 'people'??
Here's some articles that bear that out.
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=233696
http://www.eugeneweekly.com/2004/09/09/views.html
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