[Oz-gifted] Oh, dear! Those Older Children!

[Anna V]

Lisa wrote:
> LOL, we've pulled our hair out over the schoolkids current trend to use 
> the word 'gay' as an insult, meaning 'not cool', or 'I don't like it'.
> As in 'That game is so gay'. 'I don't want to play that, it's gay'.
> I think that sometimes, they get sooo sick of the lectures on word 
> derivation and history of usage, that they stop using the word. <evil grin>
>
>   
it got used once and *once only* here.  Somehow the prospect of going 
and talking to all the openly gay men in his life about why he was using 
the word gay as an insult took the shine off it ;)

anna