And So Is ‘Gay’
In fact, students of historical linguistics could tell you that many other words are homographs, too, and those students could also explain semantic change, including the pejoration and reclamation of words. (Don’t be a fool, you know where this is heading.)
We doubt that we have much in common with President Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, but we do sympathize with him for the grief he is taking for using ‘retarded‘ as a pejorative.
Was it poor judgment? Sure. Should he have known better?… Read the rest
