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Point being, gay meant happy/lighthearted way before it started to also mean homosexual: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay https://www.thefreedictionary.com
by dmos62 6y ago
Point being, gay meant happy/lighthearted way before it started to also mean homosexual: https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay https://www.thefreedictionary.com/gay
Etymology excerpt: [Middle English gai, lighthearted, brightly colored, from Old French, possibly of Germanic origin.]
- Fnoord 6y agoIn high school I learned gai in French means cheerful. The joy some 13 year olds had with that word. Incidentally, the developer of the tool, Sam Hocevar, is French. For me the colours are by default in Solarized Dark, which skews the 16 colors into, well, in this case French flag colours. To test this, consider $ msgcat --color=test