<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=362266" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>English Language Bastardized</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Isn’t it unfortunate how <br>the English language is bastardized <br>to suit someone’s twisted mind? <br>How good words cannot be used <br>in their proper context <br>without someone looking strangely <br>and giving a stupid grin. <br>Years ago, when I was at school <br>a beaver was a small animal with a flat tail <br>that lived in water and built dams. <br>Now most kids know its meaning as <br>describing a woman’s gentiles. <br>In England, we sometimes have faggots for tea <br>and again this had been corrupted from <br>food you eat to describing someone’s sexual gender. <br>Gay is another word that is taboo. <br>You will get strange looks if you used it in its proper context. <br>If I wrote a title forty years ago, I was gay <br>everyone knew that I was feeling happy <br>and not what it means today. <br>The list of bastardized words go on and on <br>and I wonder what the next word from our dictionaries <br>that will enter that no go area of words we cannot use, <br>being bastardized to suit some one’s twisted mind.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>11 October 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=362266" data-title="English Language Bastardized de David Harris" data-description="Isn’t it unfortunate how the English language is bastardized to suit someone’s twisted mind? How good words cannot be used in their proper context without someone looking strangely and giving a stupid grin. Years ago, when I was at scho..."></div> </div> </div>

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