gay, (adjective) Of persons, their attributes and actions: Full of or disposed to joy and mirth; manifesting or characterized by joyous mirth; light-hearted, exuberantly cheerful, sportive, merry. (Oxford English Dictionary)

The given quotations dating from c1386 a1310 c1440 1514 1795- 1814 1784 1706 1880 1849 1843 1812

The term 'gay' had been corrupted, in the main in the 1950's — as a noun it now sometimes terms a 'poofter' (I owe this knowledge to a noted publicist, as in an interview by the New York Times some more than a decade ago or so).

The loss need not be irretrievable — but only provided that the linguistic issues — which are not fundamentally difficult — be taken some notice of.

By my own reading a new and, admittedly "cute" deception can be presently seen in the American newspapers : the 'gay marriage'.

The cute part may be in that there can be a gay marriage, one that is 'full of or disposed to joy and mirth; manifesting or characterized by joyous mirth; light-hearted, exuberantly cheerful, sportive, merry' ; (although that has hardly been uniform in what has hitherto been undertaken by men and women within that institution which in the English language is usually called 'marriage').

Anyone who would be drawn into (more and more extensive) 'discussion' over corruptions of these terms is falling prey to some specialists — who can have ulterior motives which might have nothing to do with the subject of this (as it seems deliberately manufactured) controversy.

By the way : can this have something to do with the marxist-leninist programs of undermining "imperialism" — by any and every possible means ?

This is not my thesis. (I do not know it all and I do not know anyone who does). This might be true of some cases and might be untrue of some other cases. It would seem to fit a pattern — it seems to me that this was true of some authors. The inclosed bibliographic item (below) would imply the presence (though not preponderance) of just that factor.

Then, any criminal party might find it convenient, this or that kind of sources of chaos being present.

WPT

The Los Angeles Public Library list the following :

Possony, Stefan Thomas, 1913-
Title(s) Wordsmanship: semantics as a Communist weapon; a study prepared for the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate. Publisher Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1961. Paging 18 p., 24 cm. Notes At head of title: 87th Cong., 2d. sess. Committee print. Subject Headings United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Communism Terminology. Format qEnglish

Where to find it
Agency Availability Call Number Status
Central Library - Social Sci./Phil. Dept REF 335.4 P856-1 Not Checked Out
Central Library - Social Sci./Phil. Dept CIRC 335.4 P856-1 Not Checked Out
Central Library - Social Sci./Phil. Dept CIRC 335.4 P856-1 Not Checked Out
[ end the Library catalogue entry ]

On my personal inquiry, on two separate occasions, not one of the three ('not checked out') copies of the text could be found.

Leaving such questions as, who exactly does exactly what with exactly whom, etc. :

This issue should not be disregarded in so far as preventing any corruptions of language from making their ways into any legislation anywhere.

Some damage has already been allowed to occur in that respect. Please note : This has nothing to do with some special party's "rights" — other than any rights granted by the U.S. Constitution (in the US) to any individual whose personal safety or property, etc., are already protected by that document. There are also the "other rights not otherwise enumerated".

As a matter of common-sense reading the other rights 'not otherwise enumerated' would admit assertions by any person or party of the right to not being exposed to public education stupefaction campaigns of the sort.

Telling the public that this is "just like" that in these cases has been practically criminal, in terms of the reader's of a newspaper being defrauded by false 'content' for which he (or she) has actually paid (usually about 50 cents in the Los Angeles area where I live).

Class-action suit, anybody ?

WPT

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