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A dozen years from now I'm pretty sure "2020 Vision" won't mean what it means now.
100 years from now people will be surprised that there was a time when 2020 Vision means what it means now.
It just popped in my head talking to a 9 yr old great grand niece working on "Christmas in July". She did not understand "Don we now our gay apparel." Her mother couldn't explain it and the google didn't seem to satisfy her.
She mentioned "sick". She knows what sick means. But I gather it now can mean something is really great. As in "that outfit is sick." means someone likes your outfit.
Language .... such an interesting thing.
People with poor motives commandeer words and twist them. When people like the current crop of fringe politicians say "freedom" or "security" they don't mean what most people mean. I wish more "news" would put these things in the right context. Not doing so for the last 40 years helped us get to where we are.
niyad
(113,012 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,291 posts)"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to meanneither more nor less."
Ms. Toad
(33,980 posts)"That is so gay" is a common schoolyard homophobic insult - so that suggests to me she has heard that phrase and is associating "gay" with "sick"
At the time the song as written, it meant festive, cheerful, etc.
KentuckyWoman
(6,679 posts)We had a one hour conversation about words. The two examples were in no way related. You've misunderstood because I shortened a long conversation too much for purposes of posting.
stopdiggin
(11,235 posts)and always evolving. and there's absolutely no way to "fix" it. sometimes frustrating - sometimes painful. but we're just kind of stuck with it.
Indykatie
(3,695 posts)Uncle Joe
(58,264 posts)Thanks for the thread KentuckyWoman.