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Re: Terms and Conditions Question
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Mon, 10 May 1999 05:51:27 GMT
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Carbon 60 <carbon60@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
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> > Homophobic doesn't appear in the dictionary I checked.
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> Well it wasn't in mine - a very new word - I had to check an • internet
> dictionary. It's a slang word now but it won't be soon - it's used • too
> much across the globe - IMO that's not really slang. OK, lets • define
> slang - anyone?
You asked--
Merriam Webster's Deluxe Dictionary, 10th collegiate edition), 1998:
1Slang: (n., origin unknown, first appeared in use in 1756):
1) language peculiar to a particular group.
2) an informal nonstandard vocabulary composed typically of coinages,
arbitrarily changed words, and extravagant, forced, or facetious
figures of speech.
Homophobic: adjective form of homophobia.
Homophobia: (n.) Irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination
against homosexuality or homosexuals.
Homophobe: (n.) A person characterized by homophobia.
I tend to think that the PC definition of homophobe is anyone who
doesn't totally accept and whole-heartedly embrace homosexuality as a
valid lifestyle. If you don't like homosexuality, you're
automatically a homophobe. It's thrown around quite liberally by the
liberals in the U.S.
Jesse
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| (...) I would disagree with your "PC definition". The terms homophobic, homophobia and homophobe are used to describe those who have (as your quoted definition stated) an irrational fear.... that is, they feel threatened by the presence or even (...) (26 years ago, 10-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Well it is isn't it? If a word has a different meaning than you said that's a mis-meaning, surely... If you thought professeur (French) means professor you'll be wrong as it means teacher a mis-meaning. (...) Slang is good among people you (...) (26 years ago, 9-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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