Meanings: now and then

[Big Dave]

Is the language changing - other examples?

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[Motu]

On the same theme - there was a time when you were happy for kids to play with fairies alone ......

[GSVR]

On the same theme - there was a time when you were happy for kids to play with fairies alone ......

When you're with the Flintstones, have a yabba dabba doo time, a dabba doo time, we'll have a gay old time. ...

[Big Dave]

When you're with the Flintstones, have a yabba dabba doo time, a dabba doo time, we'll have a gay old time. ...

lollo - It's even a 'gaaayaayyaaay old time.'

But I'm trying to think of other morphed words.

Racial epithets obviously have changed acceptability but not meaning.

[gijoe1313]

bugger me if I can think of any ...

[Big Dave]

bugger me if I can think of any ...

so....yes - the answer is no - the language is evolving - but by addition and combination.

Thus yes and no means more. :doh:

[Headbanger]

Is the language changing - other examples?



Language from day one has been in a state of constant change, so in that regard..no, It hasn't changed, its always been this way.

[Krayy]

When I was tripping around the UK, we stayed at a B&B in Bath where I bit my lip at breakfast. When I yelled out the old codger who owned the place said "Hoho, what a wanker", meaning a silly person.

[Ixion]

Well, I remember when a gig was a small horse drawn carriage.

[MSTRS]

Well, I remember when a gig was a small horse drawn carriage.

Yeah, but you remember Adam when he was in short trousers...we're talking about in living memory of the younger members.
:devil2:

[sedge]

When I was tripping around the UK, we stayed at a B&B in Bath where I bit my lip at breakfast. When I yelled out the old codger who owned the place said "Hoho, what a wanker", meaning a silly person.

Yes, exactly, same thing happened to me, I accidentally dropped my beer at the pub and an old guy said "What a frecking wanker" when what he really meant was "Oh dear, that slightly intoxicated man appears to have spilt his beverage" :)

Sedge.

[Big Dave]

Co-pilot just said 'ho ho ho.'

[Bren]

and a box of fluffies was a gay thing....gay as in happy

[James Deuce]

Yes, exactly, same thing happened to me, I accidentally dropped my beer at the pub and an old guy said "What a frecking wanker" when what he really meant was "Oh dear, that slightly intoxicated man appears to have spilt his beverage" :)

Sedge.
Ahhh, that explains those punch ups I started in the UK then.

[Monorail]

not sure if this is what you mean, but back in the day c**t was a big no no. very bad word. now days good c**t is an excellent compliment.

[Big Dave]

not sure if this is what you mean, but back in the day c**t was a big no no. very bad word. now days good c**t is an excellent compliment.


Yeah - that's valid.

[Monorail]

Yeah - that's valid.

i got snapped saying it by mum the otherday. which i got an earful for, seriously not cool.

[Big Dave]

i got snapped saying it by mum the otherday. which i got an earful for, seriously not cool.

According to George Carlin - Women do not use the c-word or say 'Piss'.

[MisterD]

According to George Carlin - Women do not use the c-word or say 'Piss'.

I think that Women probably do, but Wimmin and Ladies probably don't...

On your original subject though BD, "bent" is an interesting one...for a while there is was synonymous with the new meaning for "gay" now it appears to be back to being squiggly metal and/or criminal.

You luv it, you slag!

[Big Dave]

You old/good bastard.

[Usarka]

When you're with the Flintstones, have a yabba dabba doo time, a dabba doo time, we'll have a gay old time. ...

Tell me thats not about drugs.......

Speaking of which, boozers used to get "stoned" on beer. quite a laugh when my grandad told me he got stoned

[Big Dave]

Language from day one has been in a state of constant change, so in that regard..no, It hasn't changed, its always been this way.

'Very deep. You should send that into Reader's Digest, they've got a page for people like you.' - D Adams.

[Taz]

A faggot was a bundle of twigs/sticks or branches bound together.

[pete376403]

"Funky" was another way of describing "smelly" or "stinky" in the USA back in the slave days- "Ah's bin wokin in the fiel' alla long day, massa an' ahs real funky"
(ref: The various Mandingo novels of the '70s)

[xwhatsit]

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[Kemet]

According to George Carlin - Women do not use the c-word or say 'Piss'.

:Oops: on both counts.......

lucky for me I spelt count correctly.....

[Ixion]

A faggot was a bundle of twigs/sticks or branches bound together.

And still is. Also a porcine delicacy.

And funky still means smelly - congnate to funk, as 'in a blue funk' .

Those aren't changes

[Taz]

Eeewww a funky faggot............. I'm not picking one of those up!!:oi-grr:

[Skyryder]

not sure if this is what you mean, but back in the day c**t was a big no no. very bad word. now days good c**t is an excellent compliment.

Yep but the pill changed all that.:niceone:


Skyryder

[Skyryder]

A faggot was a bundle of twigs/sticks or branches bound together.

Faggot is singular as in a bunch of faggots.

Or the junior (turd) 'school person' :spanking: who served his senors. It was the tradition in the English 'Public' schools.

Skyryder

[SPman]

A "turd", was a third former. Well it was when I was at high school. (not College - although it was Rangi...)

[Big Dave]

A "turd", was a third former. Well it was when I was at high school. (not College - although it was Rangi...)

When you were at school they still had ink wells..............me too.....:shutup:

[Hitcher]

Women do not use the c-word or say 'Piss'.

They don't fart either.

[Ixion]

When you were at school they still had ink wells..............me too.....:shutup:

Slate pencils.

[Pixie]

In my day we'd write in 't cuneiform on clay tablets.
You young 'uns don't know you're born

[Edbear]

In my day we'd write in 't cuneiform on clay tablets.
You young 'uns don't know you're born


Yeah, I's young, we had dip pens and inkwells when we graduated from pencils. Then when we were old enough we could use fountain pens which we refilled from the inkwells. We really knew we were growing up then!;)

Then someone invented the ball point pen, but they weren't considered a proper writing instrument and were banned from schools. :( Also they leaked...

I'll never forget Mum and Dad getting a new fangled phone where the one-piece handpiece sat in a cradle on the top and you used a round dial to ring the number. What an advance on the old battery-powered hand crank phone! We used to take the crank-generator's to school and get the nerds to hold the two wires while we cranked the handle...:devil2:

[Big Dave]

Well of course we had it tooofff.

When I say ink wells I mean a 'ole int ground filed with pitch black. tooof I tells ye.