Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay????
It's part of lyric of a song that I think you would all know
but did they really mean "gay" here or could "gay" carry another meaning otherwise than the most widely recognized one?
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kenny1999 but did they really mean "gay" here or could "gay" carry another meaning otherwise than the most widely recognized one? And so "gay" is officially a worsened word. The recent change in the meaning of "gay" took place in the 1960s when it became the preferred self-identifyng term among homosexual men.
- kenny1999 but did they really mean "gay" here or could "gay" carry another meaning otherwise than the most widely recognized one?
- And so "gay" is officially a worsened word.
- The recent change in the meaning of "gay" took place in the 1960s when it became the preferred self-identifyng term among homosexual men.
- It seems to have derived not from the normal sense of the word but from some sort of underworld slang.
- "Old Black Joe" was published in 1860, a hundred years before this, and you can still look the word up in any dictionary and see what he meant by it.
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kenny1999but did they really mean "gay" here or could "gay" carry another meaning otherwise than the most widely recognized one?
And so "gay" is officially a worsened word.
The recent change in the meaning of "gay" took place in the 1960s when it became the preferred self-identifyng term among homosexual men. It seems to have derived not from the norm
0"Old Black Joe" is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1860.
At that time "gay" meant "carefree, full of joy."
The meaning has changed quite a bit over the years. When reading old texts, you need to use the word meanings at the time it was written, not the contemporary meaning, which can be quite differ
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