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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7000 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes  20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 17 of 20 24 October 2006 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well... This thread is going to disappear in a hurry. So... How about those Tigers?
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| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6787 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 18 of 20 24 October 2006 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Reading this discussion, half the time I couldn't even tell what the poster's opinion on the issue of gay rights is. It's as if people saw the word and took leave of their senses.
I remember reading in a more than 50 year-old book that Itlaian pronunciation sounds a bit "effeminate" to a Spaniard, while Spanish sounds a bit too harsh to an Italian. And so they probably do. Given that according to the polls the younger generation of americans are quite open-minded on the issue of gay rights, I wouldn't be surprised if the word "gay" as used in the original post came from some sort of schoolyard/college slang and simply meant "effeminate", which I must admit French does sound to me even though I like its sound a lot, just as I do the sound of Italian. Let's lighten up a bit. Edited by frenkeld on 24 October 2006 at 3:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7000 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 19 of 20 24 October 2006 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
Judging by the original poster's comment, he didn't seem to take it as a compliment when other people linked his ability in French to homosexuality. However, I don't think that he was looking to cause a ruckus or start fights about which continent is more cultured and the like. He seemed genuinely curious what some of us on this forum thought about the supposed association. I personally would shrug off their comments. Frenkeld is right. Some people just went berserk as soon as the word "gay" popped up.
I have heard "gay" being used as a synonym for foolish or daft in colloquial English. In this situation, it has no sexual connotation, but homosexuals do frown upon this usage.
Amen. Go Tigers! ;-) Edited by Chung on 24 October 2006 at 4:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| administrator Hexaglot Forum Admin Switzerland FXcuisine.com Joined 7220 days ago 3094 posts - 2987 votes 12 sounds Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 20 of 20 24 October 2006 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Gentlemen, this forum is not about politics and I think this thread is leading nowhere we want so it is now closed. Thank you.
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