There's even a word *for* words that are spelled the same, sound the same, but have two different meanings. Words, especially in the English language, frequently have more than one meaning. While I wholeheartedly agree with the meaning behind the post, and I admire how well-written it is, I have to disagree with the actual content. See a related discussion on etymology and insult. But I chose to leave it in, with this footnote, because I’m hoping it helps others see some of the difficulties in labelling what might appear to be an ordinary word as derogatory.Īs you can see, I’ve just re-thought poor. (As a child that meant dangerous, a trap then it became a nasty distraction.) I see that others might regard the word differently. I grew up using it in the sense of sucking bog, a quagmire. * I am not using sucky as a reference to fellatio which, by extension, has on occasion (I’m told I’m happy to be corrected on this) been used as a gay slur. I will call the internet down on your head. If you don’t, I will cut you: I’ll cut you out of my life, off my party list, and possibly through an artery. But if you correct the usage instantly (preferably with an apology), I’ll forgive and forget. But, as I say, none of us is perfect, and there’ll be days when I’m not particularly reasonable, or careful, or kind. As none of us is perfect, the first time I’ll try to not to assume ill intent. Let me be very, very clear: It is not acceptable to use lame as a term of ridicule. If you use the word lame to mean anything but some version of can’t walk well, I won’t kill myself. If you hear others making this mistake, point out to them that using the lame as an insult is making fun of cripples, and that making fun of cripples is no more acceptable than making fun of queers. Think of us being scraped at and battered and cut by that cold jagged ice, every day, day in day out. Think of all us people in a wheelchair, with a cane, with crutches, with a limp, in a scooter. So think before you apply the label lame to something you find bad, poor inadequate, sucky,* naff, laughable, clueless, or generally displeasing. If you’re not gay or lame, you might not see the grinding damage that’s occurring below the waterline to those who are. Like icebergs, nine-tenths of their heft lies out of sight. But we all know what happens when gay kids get that casual insult hurled at them every day. Perhaps it seems harmless to your children to call their friend’s nerdiness gay, their bad songs gay, their ugly clothes gay. It might seem harmless to you to call a bad movie lame, a poorly– an inadequately-designed website lame, an outdated notion of publishing lame. Using lame as a derogatory term is as dangerous and ill-considered as using the term gay in the same context. If you find the title bitterly amusing, welcome to Enlightenment, but please read the post so you can explain it to lesser beings. If you find it offensive only because I appear to use gay as an insult, you need to read this post. (16) Making up lame excuses for herself is just making her look like an even bigger joke than she already is.If you don’t find the title offensive, you need to read this post. (15) The four-year-old son of Scenic appeared perceptibly lame in his right hind leg during the broadcast. (14) I think most of it is completely lame and uninteresting until we get down to Hard Acid Techno and VGM (Video Game Music). (12) A President Kerry will make the lame walk and the blind see! (13) Well, even someone who has lame legs can play DDR - it's just a matter of how good you are at it. (10) Why can't they be open and honest, instead of giving lame excuses? (11) However he realised that it just would not be that easy, for he himself had a lame leg and could only move slowly. (9) There were also some lame sheep and others suffering from diarrhoea. (8) And a lot of it was conjured by those three lame idiots. (7) He asked, then mentally kicked himself for sounding so lame. (6) A damning indictment for a Paul Bartel film, Lust in the Dust is found guilty of being bland and lame. (4) Do you think that's just a lame excuse or is that true? (5) She ducked behind a bush, and knelt, weary of walking on her lame foot. (3) One time, not too long ago, I saw a line of lame dancers unable to participate in class, sitting on the sidelines, questioning when they would return to dance. (2) "Hi, " I said and regretted it immediately because I sounded so lame. (1) Her head bowed and eyes cast down, she made a poor figure upon the pedestal, and most people did not look twice after seeing her lame foot.
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