#1 2017-08-24 09:25:36
CONSERVATIVE MP Bob Katter has accused the LGBTI community of stealing the word ‘gay’, and he wants it back.
“I have a very clear idea of what is going on here: the homosexuals in Australia, they took the word gay,” he said.
“It has a particular meaning to me because I got 84 per cent in English, in matriculation, which was a very, very high mark indeed.”
Katter went on to talk about The Rape of the Lock, a text he studied in school, which uses the word ‘gay’ in its original sense.
“It was the most beautiful word in the English language, and [homosexuals] said ‘oh god we will take that word and we will have it as ours’,” Katter said.
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#2 2017-08-24 17:53:05
I've read conflicting accounts on the word gay from word etymologists. Some say that gay really meant gay even back in the "gay '90s". He might as well complain that they stole the rainbow too.
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#3 2017-08-24 18:15:29
I find people who believe they have ownership of, or the ability to control language to be a source of constant amusement.
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#4 2017-08-25 00:55:02
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