Rafflesbear - Just to observe that, just as I mourn the pleasant word 'gay', unusable in its former meaning since pre-empted by an interest-group for their own purposes because they didn't like being called 'queer': with which I entirely sympathise - but no other adjective has quite that overtone of cheerful insouciance that 'gay' used to have, so I think it a pity the language should have lost it —

— so I regret the loss of the traditional, and beautiful,"white Noah's dove" symbol for Peace, in favour of this less meaningful in that context, but once much more meaningful in another, former, exclusively [tho never copyrighted as matter of policy - thank you for that, Crow Sister] for Unilateral-Disarmament-politics, connotation.

I think the languages of both semantics and symbolism are greatly the poorer for these two changes in interpretation.