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I was reading Battousai-nii's post about pronouncing words you learn from books, and I thought of this similar situation.
I was reading classic literature at a somewhat young age. I picked up words like "ere" and "forego," and was accustomed to older meanings to some words such as "meet," "mean," and "fancy." While this has been quite helpful in college reading, it's also been a sort of issue. I'd begin a sentence with "Ere that," and people would think I was being silly, or they just wouldn't know what I meant. I'd feel quite like Anne of Green Gables when she was told not to use big words. Ever do the same thing?

Oh, don't get me started with "gay," because that leads me to "queer." I haven't anything against homosexuality, but why did people have to change the meaning of "queer?" That was one of my most favorite words. Then, one day, I realized that no one used it the way Mary Lennox used it. I can no longer use one of my favorite words in it's original definition. emo

Just last week I was trying to describe this guy that I sort of dated, and explain why I didn't pursue the relationship. I was about to say, "he was just kind of queer," but I stopped myself. "Queer" is the perfect word to describe him, except now it'll just mean he's gay.

*huggles* I know what you mean. My friend says that the only angry thing she would like to yell at homosexual groups is "Give us our words and rainbows back!"

I don't know about giving us our words back, Battousai-nii wink I have at least one bisexual friend who's just as displeased about such words as I am.


Fiyun, the evolution of the word "flicka" is a bit surprising. Though, I suppose that's a lot like calling someone phat or saying that a certain place is the shitz. I'd be quite insulted if I didn't have Internet to keep me updated on the modern meanings of words.

True indeed. At the time, we were blaming the word stealing on political groups, though that might not be accurate.

Fairgrass: About the time I heard about the word and its history I made a theory:

"In fifty years, "b***h" or "whore" or similar negative words will be accepted as names without awaking any disgust".
In other words I want to see "b***h Abraham Cruise" or "Sammy Whore Macguinnies" when I grow old. xd

On a second note, being called "phat" in my country can be double-edged if you don't know the difference between "Suger fett" ("Sucks phat", a way of saying something stinks) and "Rocka fett" ("Rockz phat", something is good, the best or "da bomb".)

rockywitch:
I picked "thus", "shalt", "thou" and "alas" from books and use it time to time on the Net.
For accents I somehow put anything from a scottish accent, to irish or even Apu from the Simpsons incase someone speaks funny in books.

A lot of my friends have picked up the exclamation "Goodness gracious!" from, though some of them tease me for it.

I swear my school is full of idiots other than my friends and I who act dumb but are pretty smart. Anyway, I feel out of place at my school sometimes because I have never heard anyone else except me and one of my freiends use quite. I too though gay was happy until a few yaers ago when I got into middle school, it took me even longer to figure out that qeer meant homosexual too. I don;t hear many people say shall either, like "Shall we go?" My friends and I have also started saying yonder too. So I'm not sure about my other friends but I feel out of place at school, sort of like I'm surrounded by monkeys who can speak, but that would be insulting the monkeys

Do not get me started on grammer though. I have pretty good grammer most of the time but I still mess up because I never pay attention in english so most of the stuff I know about grammer came from reading. (and lectures from my mother when I majorly mess my grammer)

oh yeah, and to Fiyun. There are already a lot of people in my school who call each other "b***h" and "whore" in a friendly way. Like I've heard people greet each other " Hey whore." to their friends. Also for a while one of my friends was calling us (as in the other people in my little group) b***h and no one took it offensively. She didn't mean it offensively either. My friend sitting next to me has also informed me that another one fo our friends has started greeting us by saying "Sup my bitches." I never noticed because he talks alot so I kinda tune him out most of the time.