English is changing

Change and change again, gay, in common English parlance now also means, lame, ineffectual or rather naff, pathetic. All languages change over time and some words come to mean the opposite, for instance, 'Anon' meant straight away but now means, eventually all the best urban

yes words evolve naturally but there is the go between which is slang and used only by a percentage of the population such as bad meaning good and so on. Yep nobody uses gay anybody.

I do, indeed, see what you mean! I am a 'child of the Sabbath day, happy and wise and good and g@y' (if I remember right). Wisdom and goodness - at least in my own affairs - are not something I would claim, happiness I certainly enjoy, though I am often grumpy, but 'a certain care-free and jocular attitude to life' is indeed something I subscribe to, although I do not qualify under the description that word has more recently acquired. I deplore the fact that, in MyLot we are not able to use such innocent words as 'the white meat of chicken' or the 'place where the tenderest feelings are supposed to reside' or even 'the gender of something' without the harsh rod of 'mature content' being slapped onto the tags. I also think it iniquitous that we cannot refer to certain beasts of burden or give female dogs and male birds their proper appellations or refer to anyone whose name is Richard by a more familiar name. I do rather agree that such terms as 'ni99er' should be disallowed but then why not ban such equally pejorative terms as 'retard' or 'gringo' (and others too numerous to mention!). I think that I can cope with the use of opposites to describe something as in some way other than what is said (as in the case of 'wicked' or 'cool'). To a certain extent, both parties (the user and the listener) are aware of what is going on and are therefore 'in on' the joke. What I do object to, however, is the abuse of words like 'nice', 'fine' and 'like', for example, so that they no longer mean anything at all. I am, I have to say, somewhat equivocal about contractions like 'u' for 'you' and 'b4' for 'before'. They are necessary and useful when dealing with the 140 or 165 character limits imposed by SMS and Twitter but completely out of place and to be deplored anywhere else. However, just as contractions like "isn't", "aren't" and "shan't" have become commonplace and, to a certain extent, acceptable in writing, I have a certain sinking feeling that the spelling of English is currently undergoing a drastic change which may become permanent in a generation or two. This, of course, is 'par for the course': very few people can read Chaucer without great difficulty, yet more than half of the problems they have with what he wrote are due to unfamiliar spellings.

I don't really have any complaints. I think it sort of surprises me how young people use the language. Like for a long while 'gay' was a derogatory work. Like he is so gay. Meaning he is weird or something. And I used to like the word 'weird' because I had read in an old dictionary that it meant 'magical' and I liked that. When I was a young girl my girlfreind and I used to use a gibberish language we had worked out. We knew what we met but if people listened to us it was just alot of jibberish. I enjoy the english language and the fact that it is a melting pot of many other languages.

I agree with you. There are a lot of changes being made to the meaning of words nowadays. Sometimes it is hard to say something without the other person putting a different meaning to it.

There's a nice dialect issue in yorkshire, up here the word until is seldom used, but is frequently substituted for while. So the sentence "I'll not be home while late" is perfectly normal.

it sounds like mylot is homophobic and afraid of people disliking g-y stuff.