— H.G. Koeningsberger,
Medieval Europe 400-1500, page 60.
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— H.G. Koeningsberger,
Medieval Europe 400-1500, page 60.
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Oh, do grow up, I use the word “gay” in that sense more often than I use it in the modern one.
7. November 2007 @ 12:44 ( Permalink )
I don’t wanna.
7. November 2007 @ 13:52 ( Permalink )
Oh, well, that’s alright, then.
7. November 2007 @ 14:00 ( Permalink )
And please, don’t misunderstand me: I do not in any way resent homosexuals for expropriating the word “gay”, and neither do I use it as a derogative term. In fact, I hardly use it at all. I prefer the word “homo” for such purposes.
In spite of this, the modern use of the word is so widespread that I none the less have this (as one of the) association(s) to it. So when I for once encountered it in a more formal setting (where descriptive words like this is generally avoided, although I’m aware that it wasn’t so only thirty years ago), and on top of it all in this context, I could help myself: I giggled.
Granted, this giggling might have been related to the fact that I had been reading 60 pages of medieval history in about two, three hours, but I still thought it was relatively funny, and wanted to share it, being the good socialist that I in spite of everything still am.
Especially when, as already established, I’m childish.
7. November 2007 @ 15:48 ( Permalink )
I admit that it can sometimes be passingly funny (”everyone was gay and happy!”), but rarely quotable. ;P
7. November 2007 @ 17:41 ( Permalink )
Evidently, we disagree.
Although I obviously don’t have any problems seeing why it could seem so for less childishly-minded people. After all, it is in its essence a fairly dull statement about the homogenity and conformity of fashions in Roman interior design.
Which, come to think of it, might go a long way to explain why I grasped at straws to make it fun.
8. November 2007 @ 14:33 ( Permalink )
*laughs* Indeed. Contrast often causes comedy, and it’s far easier to make something seem funny contrasted against dullness than against most other things…
8. November 2007 @ 20:03 ( Permalink )
Indeed.
9. November 2007 @ 02:35 ( Permalink )