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I hear it every once in a while and I do admit that when I hear it, I pause and wonder what they meant.
The odd thing about our language is its evolutionary nature.
Imagine reading a story to 4th graders in which a boy is referred to as "queer". The story was written 50 years ago. I've found, much to my dismay, that when reading a story like this, in order to avoid 3 minutes worth of giggling, I have to read it as "strange", instead.
Webster Wept.
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"I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am" - Cormac McCarthy, All The Pretty Horses
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