This is what you all get for using "literally" in every sentence.

My parents are gonna kill me if this doesn't curve.

 

He said that he could care less. That doesn't tell me anything about how much or how little he cares, so I asked how much less in order to figure it out.

 

It's neither, it's simply a shift across a scale of positive and negative . Wicked use to mean terrible (or equivalent) and now is used more as fantastic (or equivalent). Or the word sick being the action of vomiting which is slang for something good, it's all a shift from one side to the other. Evolution of language is more like the term gay turning from happy to meaning homosexual, then again that started as a shift since it can be used as an insult, but I can't think of any others off the top of my head. Degradation of language would be more using it's more ancient and archaic meaning, there by reverting the word into a past state, a reversal, like using Shakespearian language these days in a official capacity.

If you value communication you'd be trying to maximise the efficiency of it. So you'd be using text talk in writing since the abbreviations allow for quicker information transfer by using less words and in shorter length, and missing out compound word in order to minimise our wasted use of connective words and use the shortest descriptive words, like instead of saying 'wonderful' anymore you simply say 'good'.
As long as we talk, our language culture won't die, no matter if we're speaking in Shakespearian or Klingon.
Honestly, people have been complaining about language change for centuries, and it's only going to change how it does and not by sticking our noses up to it. It's just an annoyance to keep up with it, admittedly.

 

When the hell did this happen?[DOUBLEPOST=1380757350][/DOUBLEPOST]

Or even Shakespearean Klingon.

 

70s - 80s, I think, not aure.

 

Is this just in the UK? Here in the States, we still use wicked to mean "terrible" or "evil."

Also, here's a fun fact! Some historians and language experts believe that the North American dialect of English is closer to Victorian English than the English dialect of English. Come to think of it, that might explain the wicked goings on regarding the word "wicked."[DOUBLEPOST=1380757995][/DOUBLEPOST]

Jiku confirmed for stereotypical Asian?

 

those words are interchangeable.

 

JIKU'S ASIAN

DID IT EVERY BODY

FIGURED IT OUT

NAAAIIILED IT!

 

Can't come to terms with the word gay steadily transcending being a synonym for homosexual
10/10
(Also context doesn't exist. No such thing)

 

Dick stroking joke, -100000000/10

Yes I went there.

 

what does the transcendence of a word look like
is it beautiful?

 

according to google it looks like this:

 

It's used primarily in the UK, yeah.

 

Except 'gay' in that usage never meant anything. It was just a bunch of lazy idiot kids who decided to trump up a slur for their own amusement. If you think that equates to using 'literally' in a contrary fashion for emphasis you can fuck right off.

 

I could get just as pissed at your by saying gay never meant homosexual and as such isn't really a slur
But that would be silly.
Or, going by your reaction
a hate crime
I dunno

 

It's really hard to understand you but I gather you're either twisting my words, or legitimately didn't understand me. Instead of repeating myself I'm just going to ask you to give it another look. Or fix your damn grammar, one of the two.

 

I'm using pretty plain English, but I'll try and simplify
Gay DOES mean something in that context. The fact that you find the 'kids' who did it idiots doesn't change the fact that the cultural constant is in the midst of evolving into any other generic insult term. Much like how the middle finger was once an insult used to offend prisoners who had their middle finger chopped off to prevent them from being able to fire a bow, the original meaning is being lost.
You argue that the word never meant anything like that, but was never intended to refer to homosexuality either. It was meant to refer to happiness.
That's the point. Words change. That was the intent of my VEERRRY first post. Gay is my go to example of words that change in meaning over time, because it has such a colourful history.
Of course if you're intent on being overly aggressive about it, by all means

 

I never understood that. Like, you have two other fingers you can use.

 

>I could get just as pissed at your by saying

Your sentence are grammatical incorrect

I have no idea if you meant to say 'you' or if something was supposed to follow 'your' and precede 'by,' and either way it still doesn't make much sense.

Yes. It also referred to one "addicted to social pleasures and dissipations. Often euphemistically: Of loose and immoral life"•. Thus it's not hard to figure out from there that its use as a term for homosexual people was originally intended as a slur. Having since been reclaimed, it's pretty fuckin' discouraging to see it take a step backwards because, yes, some DUMB IDIOT KIDS couldn't think of another of the thousands of perfectly serviceable words to describe their inexplicable CoD losing streak. The English language does not need another insult, especially not one that takes people for granted. It's already packed full of those.

Except it's a stupid example because now it is in among a great number of equally pointless synonyms for NO REASON. Not to mention, as it is also used as a means of personal identity, using it so frivolously is hurtful to people who identify that way. It has nothing to do with the word we're talking about, because nobody but the most insanely militant word-policing hipsters will ever be damaged by people using 'literally' facetiously to emphasize a point. Stop defending that sickening trend and maybe I won't aggress you.

 

Twas but a typo

Look at all the angry generalization! OBVIOUSLY this social change came about because of those damn kids and their calls of duties and their rock and roll and elvis' hips.
I don't think I once said this was a good change or that I supported it. The only time I've ever used gay in a derogatory way is as an inside joke with a gay friend of mine who I know is okay with it.
You could do to take a page from her book, meeting 'homophobia' and 'bigotry' with respect and understanding. Works pretty well for her.
Quite frankly people are giving a word too much power if they let it become such an insult that the mere existence of it is worth paragraph of anger, regardless of context.
I believe it was Selphie who said
"Everybody love and peace!"

Not everybody can become ambidextrous