English Language Bastardized

Isn’t it unfortunate how the English language is bastardized to suit someone’s twisted mind? How good words cannot be used in their proper context without someone looking strangely and giving a stupid grin. Years ago, when I was at school a beaver was a small animal with a flat tail that lived in water and built dams. Now most kids know its meaning as describing a woman’s gentiles. In England, we sometimes have faggots for tea and again this had been corrupted from food you eat to describing someone’s sexual gender. Gay is another word that is taboo. You will get strange looks if you used it in its proper context. If I wrote a title forty years ago, I was gay everyone knew that I was feeling happy and not what it means today. The list of bastardized words go on and on and I wonder what the next word from our dictionaries that will enter that no go area of words we cannot use, being bastardized to suit some one’s twisted mind. 11 October 2009