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dernwyn
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Aug 31 2012, 3:13am
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And "take back" the English language!
The average person - American, or is this a problem with other English-speakers as well? - does not have the extensive vocabulary of the common person of a century ago. How many are shocked at the word "niggard"!
Let's all make an effort to use words like "queer" and "gay" extensively in their older meanings.
And try to ignore the queer looks we get...
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"I desired dragons with a profound desire"
"It struck me last night that you might write a fearfully good romantic drama, with as much of the 'supernatural' as you cared to introduce. Have you ever thought of it?"
-Geoffrey B. Smith, letter to JRR Tolkien, 1915
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