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CTyankee

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1. I think we can have several definitions of the word "gay."

Reply to diabeticman (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 10:16 AM

Nov 2013

Lots of English words have more than one meaning, depending how it is used in a sentence. In the song, it means "festive" and in the Cornelia Otis Skinner novel "Our Hearts were Young and Gay" it means happily carefree. I think we can have coexistence here...

And, by the way "make the yuletide gay" is a line from the lyrics to "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."

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I don't mean to be offensive but can't we tell the difference between how a word is used? [View all] diabeticman Nov 2013 OP

I think we can have several definitions of the word "gay." CTyankee Nov 2013 #1

We don't "deck" a lot of things nowadays either. CBGLuthier Nov 2013 #2

Now you have me very curious - what do the words mean? Hestia Nov 2013 #5

Do you mean "don" and "deck"? CTyankee Nov 2013 #7

Lots of words have multiple definitions. MineralMan Nov 2013 #3

Another victim of the dumbed-down education system - the word gay has several meanings Hestia Nov 2013 #4

Unfortunately yes.... But we've seen this here when the term "niggardly" was correctly used hlthe2b Nov 2013 #6