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From: braddy@houxl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: nay to net.gay
Message-ID: <120@houxl.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Sep-83 21:22:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 22 21:22:15 1983
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Who are you to say what should or should not be in the English language?

Language is a community project:
Most people use gay to mean (male) homosexual, so it's part of the language.
Since you apparently don't like the word gay, just don't use it.
If enough people share your opinion and communicate that way,
then by definition, English will have changed,
as living languages do, and that's that.

Your opinion is only that, Larry; when you present it as fact,
and as if you could speak for all of us who speak English,
you expose your ignorance and narrow mind.

            David Braddy
            houxl!braddy