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Clams Canino wrote:

<queer>
> Just because the use of a word has been perverted over the years
> isn't a good reason to shun it. That only gives the misuse of it more
> weight.

I think the term "perverted" here is a bit... well, bigoted. I'm sure you
didn't mean it that way but please be a bit more careful in the future!

T.
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"Taemon" wrote in message

> Clams Canino wrote:
>
> <queer>
> > Just because the use of a word has been perverted over the years
> > isn't a good reason to shun it. That only gives the misuse of it more
> > weight.
>
> I think the term "perverted" here is a bit... well, bigoted. I'm sure you
> didn't mean it that way but please be a bit more careful in the future!
>
> T.


Skewed

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"Öjevind Lång" wrote in message

> "BaJoRi" skrev i meddelandet
>
>
> [snip]
>
>>> I should think not at 1st glance.
>>> Just because the use of a word has been perverted over the years isn't a
>>> good reason to shun it. That only gives the misuse of it more weight.
>
> The whole population of Buckland was queer, by all accounts.
>
> Öjevind

So it was like the M-E version of San Francisco or Fire Island?
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In message "Taemon"
spoke these staves:
>
> Clams Canino wrote:
>>
>
> <queer>
>
>> Just because the use of a word has been perverted over the years
>> isn't a good reason to shun it. That only gives the misuse of it
>> more weight.
>
> I think the term "perverted" here is a bit... well, bigoted. I'm
> sure you didn't mean it that way but please be a bit more careful
> in the future!

I don't know about bigoted, but I'll cheerfully acknowledge being an
old fart, so I don't mind saying that I think there's definitely
something perverted[*] about abusing a perfectly good word to imply
that homosexuality should be somehow strange or unnatural . . .


[*] Pervert:
• verb 1 alter from an original meaning or state to a corruption
of what was first intended.
<http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/pervert?view=uk>

--
Troels Forchhammer
Valid e-mail is <troelsfo(a)gmail.com>
Please put [AFT], [RABT] or 'Tolkien' in subject.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not
imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They
laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed
at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the
Clown.
- Carl Sagan
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Troels Forchhammer wrote:

> I don't know about bigoted, but I'll cheerfully acknowledge being an
> old fart, so I don't mind saying that I think there's definitely
> something perverted[*] about abusing a perfectly good word to imply
> that homosexuality should be somehow strange or unnatural . . .

Ha! Good one, Troels

T.
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"BaJoRi" skrev i meddelandet


[snip]

>>>> Just because the use of a word has been perverted over the years isn't
>>>> a
>>>> good reason to shun it. That only gives the misuse of it more weight.
>>
>> The whole population of Buckland was queer, by all accounts.
>>
>> Öjevind
>
> So it was like the M-E version of San Francisco or Fire Island?

Yes, and its Master was called Garhendad ("Gary") Newbuck.

Öjevind
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