Changing Words

I hate when people say "that is so gay" i mean it really ticks me off. Does that make sence saying something is "gay" like in "homosexual" or "happy"? i mean some one looking at their test that they didn't do go on and all of a sudden and F is "happy" or "homosexual." Then again is there any word that can replace it? like the word "love" too. can a word replace it and have the same slang meaning, or real meaning? Help us all please come up wtih a "slanged" word that is used to often and a change for it! Loves

Gay is not a synonym for stupid. That's what I tell 'em.

Well thats gay...im soooo just kidding, but yea i hate it to, i mean i dunno it just ticks me off also

Well then, I'll just take a moment to think of a different answer.
Goshness.

I still say it a lot out of habit, but I try really hard not to. Especially since like this gay kid is in all my classes. I don't have anything wrong with gay people and mean nothing by it, it just caught on.
Like. . . Britt. . . Said.
Gosh.
(:

I was talking to a friend of mine about gay people. and i accidentlly said 'thats gay'...
we had a good laugh over it, and all of my gay friends laugh over it, but yeah, it isnt nice to say, and i try not to say it.

Its a good expressing word, but yeah....the logic behind it is pretty screwed =S

I know how to use the words in the right way but its that the words have a new meaning that doesn't make sence and was changed because of a persons. like during WW2 it wasn't "thats so gay" it was "thats so jewish."
i think that if words didn't change then this would be a problem, such as my first reaction to "My friends and I threw some matches on some faggots" i was like why do you want to be so mean, then i relized that it was "on some" not "at some" that alone could of changed the meaning of the sentence comeplatly. (sorry if i miss spell some stuff, i'm pretty bad at spelling.)
We should stop trying to change something that is ok the way it is.
(when you all get a chance you should read the story Am I Blue? its really good. just check out the book Am I Blue? and its the first or second sotry in it! if you want to.)

I used to say that A LOT. I stopped when that guy who hosted some radio channel got grilled for constantly using 'gay' as a substitute for 'stupid' or 'pathetic' on live radio.

Back in primary school gay meant stupid.. not gay. For example, a boy kisses a girl, he's gay.

If bad can mean wicked cool and sick even cooler, then gay can mean stupid.

It's all cultural, deal with it.

I used to say it a lot, and I still do, admittingly, occasionally. But I try to stop myself.

It took me a lesson in a class of mine, a very openminded class, where my teacher pointed out how people use the word 'gay' as Ian said, as a synonym for stupid etc. It's not.

No one ever realises how it can really affend gay people, or even just people in general by saying it, until you think about what you're actually saying.

Pretty crazy.

I never understood how people got "faggot" out of gay. Faggot as we said, a bundle of sticks. Not a homosexual. Strange how someone could even relate the two.

I would think that should you imagine that twigs represent the phallus and you have nothing but a bunch of phalluses hanging out together then determining faggot to be homoerotic could be quite easy.