The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #135889   Message #3102519
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
25-Feb-11 - 06:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: old words - new meanings
Subject: RE: BS: old words - new meanings
"gay" is also used now by young people with more or less the same meaning as the new meaning of "sad", as a put-down word with no sexual reference. It seems quite possible that this will mean that "gay" meaning "homosexual" will in time cease to be seen as acceptable.

Perhaps the older meaning, lighthearted/jolly, will reassert itself before we're done.