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I am NOT Jordan Hubbard. I'm not trying to fool people into thinking that I am. I'm Jordan Henderson, have been all my life. Jordan Hubbard is jkh [slashdot.org].
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I am NOT Jordan Hubbard. I'm not trying to fool people into thinking that I am. I'm Jordan Henderson, have been all my life. Jordan Hubbard is jkh [slashdot.org].
The words you use are important
Sunday April 02 2006, @09:53PM
Some labels apply to people, you know, human beings?
When we overload them with negative meanings, we dilute their meaning and risk misrepresenting real people who might need understanding.
The term "gay" is not the same as bad.
The term "retarded" doesn't mean foolish or stupid.
Maybe these words have come to mean this to you, but maybe you should think about what this might imply. If it doesn't bother you, then never mind, you might be beyond reflective thought. Maybe some of you who do care about language and people will be more thoughtful.
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adj. lamer, lamest
1. Disabled so that movement, especially walking, is difficult or impossible: Lame from the accident, he walked with a cane. A lame wing kept the bird from flying.
2. Marked by pain or rigidness: a lame back.
3. Weak and ineffectual; unsatisfactory: a lame attempt to apologize; lame excuses for not arriving on time.
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moderately cold : lacking in warmth
In other words, language changes, deal with it.
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n.
1. A bundle of twigs, sticks, or branches bound together.
2. A bundle of pieces of iron or steel to be welded or hammered into bars.
tr.v. fagoted also faggoted, fagoting also faggoting, fagots also faggots
1. To bind into a fagot; bundle.
2. To decorate with fagoting.
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n.
1.
a. A student at a British public school who is required to perform menial tasks for a student in a higher class.
b. A drudge.
2. Chiefly British Fatiguing or tedious work; drudgery.
v. fagged, fagging, fags
v.intr.
1. To work to exhaustion; toil.
2. To function as the servant of another student in a British public school.
v.tr.
To exhaust; weary: Four hours on the tennis court fagged me out.
[From fag, to droop (obsolete), perhaps from Middle English fagge; see fag end.]
fag 2
n. Slang
A cigarette.
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Ha-ha, I called you left-handed.
[In a funny mood this morning, sorry.]
[And the word 'retarded' is still used. My youngest brother, who is autistic, is also somewhat retarded, and palsied as well. But he's doing well, is mainstreamed in a few subjects, and will enter high school next year.]