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[Jazperanza]

"champion"....! :D

[Mayna00]

Jon and David should be best friends.

Thanks for the upload, Haceid!

[CiaranLiam]

Not an amusing point, but grammatically an absolute belter.

[PinUpPoetProductions]

Jon Richardson is not wearing a cardigan... dear lord.

[MsDDiddy]

WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? 

[Canaderek]

@subgay You're supporting my argument that the word can have either meaning. Your complaint is that in my edition, the wording is insignificantly different. The two disparate meanings are as I presented them.

Had you forgotten which position you'd been taken?

[Canaderek]

"Gay" is very often used to mean "homosexual". This has been the case for many decades. All English language dictionaries will include this definition of gay. Some homophobic people use the word as a generic negative, because they're homophobic

Try to find Stephen Fry's English Delight on audio disc or computer file. I think you'd enjoy it very much and most likely drop the pseudo-intellectual pendantry

Sorry for the acerbic tone (I'm a smart-ass myself, but I fear you're only half-way there).

[Canaderek]

@subgay You'd suggested that British English dictionaries have it, er, right, while "American-English" do not.

By "vast majority", I'd meant that most all English speakers are not British.

And, some British people use the word either or both ways (see Rob Brydon in above video).

I understand why some claim to speak the "true" English, and why it makes such people feel clever. However, if most speakers use a word in a certain way, that's what the word means. That's how language works.

[subgay]

@subgay And while I accept that language evolves with time, you can't confuse going backwards with going forwards.

[subgay]

@Canaderek Furthermore, "a few dictionaries" No, the majority of dictionaries make this note. They could print two copies of their dictionaries, 1 for the US market and 1 for everyone else but money is money and making a note is cheaper by far.

So, please remember that just because a word is "commonly" used incorrectly that does not validate its use. Millions, no hundreds of millions of kids use Gay to mean anything generally bad, it still means merry, not bad.

[subgay]

@Canaderek How you got " the vast majority of the English-speaking world considers either definition acceptable" from my comment I will never know, I clearly said one definition was MORE commonly used than the other. That alone should indicate that LESS people consider the dual meaning to be correct than those that consider it correct.

[subgay]

@subgay Ironically, the earliest recorded sense of disinterested is for the disputed sense. Today, the ‘incorrect’ use of disinterested is widespread: around a quarter of citations in the Oxford English Corpus for disinterested are for this sense.