How did..

[magneticgoop]

Gay: Originally meant Happy, but now can mean homosexual or another insult

it is because in the 30s a writer in a newspaper was writing about homosexuals and used the term "gay men" so as not to offend anyone, and the term stuck

[static_ice]

and lame was used to describe someone who couldn't walk

tho its not much of an insult today...

aye...

I've got a mate who said f*ck originally meant "fornication under consent of the king" but anyone who suggests medieval acronyms is an idiot in my book/

I heard from... sources... that it started from the german word "frichen" (sp?) which means "to strike"

[Skittles!]

I was just wondering before, how did some words turn into insulting and totally different meanings then what they originally started with?

Examples -
Gay: Originally meant Happy, but now can mean homosexual or another insult
Fag: Meant stick, but now means as above
Faggot: Meant pile of sticks, means above now.
Dumb: Actually means deaf/mute/blind but now is taken as an insult

Why did these words change and how?

Or another insult? I thought more of you than this Skittles. What's is wrong with being homosexual? I don't consider it an insult, and when I do hear people use in an insulting way, I can generally tell they're homophobic bigots, or just ignorant. Same thing really.

Yeah, you seem to have taken it the wrong way. I'm not a bigot, and there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. I wasn't meaning it as an insult, but people do say it as an insult, which I find ludicrous.

[Hologram]

The strange thing is, is that my parents were planning to go to Myanmar in about 3 weeks but they had to cancel stuff cause of the protests.

It's really sickening that the government can't handle a few thousand Buddhists and civilians protesting for more human rights, so they just either beat them, shoot them, or take them away

I think we could all take a lesson from Nicolo Machiavelli's The Prince for things like this.

[Beastly]

I was just wondering before, how did some words turn into insulting and totally different meanings then what they originally started with?

Examples -
Gay: Originally meant Happy, but now can mean homosexual or another insult
Fag: Meant stick, but now means as above
Faggot: Meant pile of sticks, means above now.
Dumb: Actually means deaf/mute/blind but now is taken as an insult

Why did these words change and how?

Or another insult? I thought more of you than this Skittles. What's is wrong with being homosexual? I don't consider it an insult, and when I do hear people use in an insulting way, I can generally tell they're homophobic bigots, or just ignorant. Same thing really.

Yeah, you seem to have taken it the wrong way. I'm not a bigot, and there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. I wasn't meaning it as an insult, but people do say it as an insult, which I find ludicrous.

I think only a homosexual would think you were being insulting skittles. They are very sensitive it anybody says anything, Just like 20 years ago, if someone asked a question about how the word nigger came about.

In time the wound will heal. And when someone asks the same question as you raised they won't think nothing of it, except how strange, nasty, and wrong homophobes and bigots are.

[static_ice]

I was just wondering before, how did some words turn into insulting and totally different meanings then what they originally started with?

Examples -
Gay: Originally meant Happy, but now can mean homosexual or another insult
Fag: Meant stick, but now means as above
Faggot: Meant pile of sticks, means above now.
Dumb: Actually means deaf/mute/blind but now is taken as an insult

Why did these words change and how?

Or another insult? I thought more of you than this Skittles. What's is wrong with being homosexual? I don't consider it an insult, and when I do hear people use in an insulting way, I can generally tell they're homophobic bigots, or just ignorant. Same thing really.

Yeah, you seem to have taken it the wrong way. I'm not a bigot, and there is nothing wrong with homosexuality. I wasn't meaning it as an insult, but people do say it as an insult, which I find ludicrous.

I think only a homosexual would think you were being insulting skittles. They are very sensitive it anybody says anything, Just like 20 years ago, if someone asked a question about how the word nigger came about.

In time the wound will heal. And when someone asks the same question as you raised they won't think nothing of it, except how strange, nasty, and wrong homophobes and bigots are.

in time? but the n-word still hasn't "healed"...

[muy_thaiguy]

Not sure if these were mentioned but,

bitch- female dog
bastard- fatherless child
queer- strange or weird

Now they seem to have different meanings also.

[mr. incrediball]

Not sure if these were mentioned but,

bitch- female dog
bastard- fatherless child
queer- strange or weird

Now they seem to have different meanings also.

bastard means illegitimate child/child born to unmarried parents

[muy_thaiguy]

Not sure if these were mentioned but,

bitch- female dog
bastard- fatherless child
queer- strange or weird

Now they seem to have different meanings also.

bastard means illegitimate child/child born to unmarried parents

Basically the same thing, also, I am a bastard child who doesn't even know what his father looks like.

[borox0]

This entire conersation proves that the english language is a load of shite.