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Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: Kodiak on July 17, 2011, 08:35:07 pm

Title: The List of Lost Words
Post by: Kodiak on July 17, 2011, 08:35:07 pm: The purpose of this thread is to list poor words that have been misused, perverted, stigmatised or otherwise turned from their original meaning.
Let us remember those poor bastards that gave their ~~lives~~ meanings and purpose by being turned into something unnatural.

Post your word/s and the reason you think they've become lost, unusable or otherwise badly changed.

I'm gonna start with: TWILIGHT - once an innocently beautiful word, it has been defiled by Stephanie Meyer and her Mormon-Propaganda-Bullshit about sparkling Vampires... now it cannot be used without a foul aftertaste lingering in your mouth and others looking sideways at you...
Title: Re: The List of Lost Words
Post by: Siiem on July 17, 2011, 09:42:56 pm: Gay.

Used to mean happy, now it means Xant.
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Post by: Gorath on July 17, 2011, 11:44:39 pm: bundle of sticks.
Used to mean cigarette, now it means ranged player.
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Post by: Kalam on July 17, 2011, 11:49:46 pm: Nubile.

It now means Kesh/Tears/Rhaelys.
Title: Re: The List of Lost Words
Post by: Xant on July 18, 2011, 12:15:59 am: Quote from: Siiem on July 17, 2011, 09:42:56 pm
Gay.

Used to mean happy, now it means Xant.

Traitor.

Used to mean someone who betrays. It still means that, but it's got a new synonym: Siiem.
Title: Re: The List of Lost Words
Post by: Earthdforce on July 19, 2011, 06:24:37 am: Europe.

It used to mean somewhere with nice vacation spots, now it means people who hate us :(
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Post by: Vibe on July 19, 2011, 10:13:05 am: Patriarch

used to mean man, now it means woman.
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Post by: H4rdn3ssKill3r on July 19, 2011, 05:08:41 pm: Quote from: Gorath on July 17, 2011, 11:44:39 pm
bundle of sticks.
Used to mean cigarette, now it means ranged player.

I think you mean my old friend, bundle of sticks is something completly different, atleast here in england because you're allowed to say ''my old friend'' in public near a police officer but not ''bundle of sticks''

bundle of sticks ment Peices of pork shaped like disformed meatball but now it means ''ranged player'' ;)
Title: Re: The List of Lost Words
Post by: LordRichrich on July 24, 2011, 04:04:43 pm: I fail to see why my post was removed, it wasn't racist it was true... Political correctness gone mad >.<
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Post by: bilwit on July 24, 2011, 04:29:21 pm: Skinhead.

It was a trendy subculture in the UK that promoted black and white unity, but gained notoriety for becoming the image of racism for the paki/jamaican racist attacks in the 80s. It really became the polar opposite of what the majority of people think of it as now -- neo-chocolate chip cookies.
Title: Re: The List of Lost Words
Post by: Gorath on July 25, 2011, 12:02:16 am: Quote from: H4rdn3ssKill3r on July 19, 2011, 05:08:41 pm
I think you mean my old friend, bundle of sticks is something completly different, atleast here in england because you're allowed to say ''my old friend'' in public near a police officer but not ''bundle of sticks''

bundle of sticks ment Peices of pork shaped like disformed meatball but now it means ''ranged player'' ;)

You're right. I meant "my old friend" but meh. lol

bundle of sticks: Used to mean bundles of sticks (this one is right lol) but now it means "non-melee"
Title: Re: The List of Lost Words
Post by: Uumdi on July 25, 2011, 03:10:41 am: Swag - a suspended wreath, garland, drapery, or the like, fastened up at or near each end and hanging down in the middle; festoon.

Now it means

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3YWSh0ogck#t=0m20

Sorry about this one guys
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Post by: KaMiKaZe_JoE on July 26, 2011, 05:06:10 am: Cuntcake

It used to mean something, but now it means the everything.