Most Awkward Sentence Ever
When reading old books, a certain type of person likes to laugh or snicker when they come across some quaint old bit of vocabulary that happens to have changed slightly in meaning in the intervening decades.
You know the things I’m talking about. Describing someone who is merely strange as queer, or someone happy as gay. Mentioning throwing another faggot on the fire, perhaps.
Language changes. We all know this, and most of these instances really aren’t that noteworthy, let alone funny.
Sometimes, though…
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