I was watching a video on YouTube last night: American Experience: PBS: Pearl Harbor Surprise and Remembrance. There was a segment about US/Japan relations, Japanese culture and American perceptions of the Japanese and this was a title card of a snippet from a documentary made before the war.
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If you saw something like that these days, you'd think it was porn, huh?
Not only the times have changed, so have definitions of words.
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If you saw something like that these days, you'd think it was porn, huh?
Not only the times have changed, so have definitions of words.
2 comments:
I can remember Mother getting pissed off when the word "gay" changed definitions. She said, "They ruined a perfectly good word!"
Yeah, I have nothing against homosexuals per se, but I dislike them appropriating certain words. Gay is one...and I have a nice lady friend who says she's really tired of the jokes, that she was named that before the word was used that way...and I don't want "gay marriage", either. Just a matter of semantics, but marriage is between a man and a woman. Think of another word. Lastly, the "tea bag" thing really pisses me off, esp. used in the context of people who are of the Tea Party mindset. TEA means "taxed enough already" and anyone who doesn't think that is either sucking the govt. tit for all they can or needs to be hit in the head w/ a baseball bat.
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