Post by MichaÅStanisÅawZwrot * niezręczne*dotyczy słowa Gay.
Na tej elitarnej grupie nie mogłem podać wszystkich znaczeń słowa Gay.
Nie znalazłem również lepszego słowa niż *niezręcznie*. Pytanie zadaje
Dama!
Dama miała rację. Kiedy Enola Gay przychodziła na świat, słowo "gay"
znaczyło tylko "radosny" lub "skory do korzystania z rozrywek" (w sensie:
"to rozrywkowy facet").
MJM
Oto uzasadnienie:
http://www.phrases.org.uk/bulletin_board/33/messages/670.html
"Gay" meaning homosexual first appeared in "Underworld and Prison Slang" in
1935, "where a 'geycat' was defined as a homosexual boy. Prior to that it
had been used to describe someone who was addicted to social pleasures and
dissipations (1637), and was later applied to prostitutes or women who led
an immoral life (1825). By 1955, gay was widely acknowledged as an American
euphemism for homosexual."
"By the late 1980s into the 1990s 'gay' had become the standard word for
those whose sexual preference was homosexuality, although the formerly
derogatory 'queer' was adopted by many younger lesbians and gay men to
describe themselves."
Post by MichaÅStanisÅawFrom "Speaking Freely: A Guided Tour of American English from Plymouth Rock
to Silicon Valley" by Stuart Berg Flexner and Anne H. Soukhanov (Oxford
University Press, New York, 1997). Page 378-379.