Gay Joe has gone over the ledge and now revels and embraces in everything and anything the left would be perceived to dislike. He now exists only as a middle finger to the left.
Meanwhile the ruling class are laughing themselves to the bank while the Proletariat fight over nonsense and scraps...
Please define your word usage of the term " Gay ".... because it appears you are slandering the poster Sherrif Joe with false accusations through the misuse of a word, or you misunderstand the proper terminology and wish to describe him as just a " Happy " guy.
Dave Wilton, Monday, February 02, 2009
This adjective, meaning joyful or light-hearted, is of uncertain origin. The English word comes from the French
gai, but where this French word comes from is uncertain. There are cognates in other Romance languages, notably Provencal, Old Spanish, Portugeuse, and Italian, but no likely Latin candidate for a root exists. The word is probably Germanic in origin, with the Old High German
gāhi, fast or fleeting, suggested as a likely progenitor.1
The word is first recorded in English c.1325, with the meaning of beautiful, in a poem titled
Blow, Northerne Wind, which appears in the manuscript
British Library MS Harley 2253 (As an aside,
Harley 2253 is a very important manuscript. It is a treasure-trove of early English lyric poetry, containing early and unique copies of many poems.):
Heo is dereworþe in day,
graciouse, stout, ant gay,
gentil, iolyf so þe iay.
(She is precious in day
gracious, stout, and gay,
gentle, jolly as the jay.)2
Over the next few decades, the meaning of the word evolved from beautiful to bright, showy, and finely dressed. By the end of the 14th century, the modern sense of light-hearted and carefree had appeared. From Chaucer’s
Troilus & Criseyde, Book II, lines 921-22, written c.1385:
Peraunter in his briddes wise a lay
Of love, that made hire herte fressh and gay.
(By chance, in his bird’s manner [sang] a song
Of love, that made her heart fresh and gay.)3
In recent years, however, this traditional sense of gay has been driven out of the language by the newer sense meaning homosexual. Many believe this new sense of gay to be quite recent, when in fact it dates at least to the 1920s and perhaps even earlier. This early existence is as a slang and self-identifying code word among homosexuals, only entering the mainstream of English in the late 1960s. So how did this word meaning joyful come to refer to homosexuality?