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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago

Society keeps changing the definition of normal words

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Society keeps changing the definition of normal words

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VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 1 month ago
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    F@g for cigarette is still used in the UK. So much so that the BBC once used it in the 2010s to refer to cigarettes in a news report.

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      That is true. Can’t argue that. But isn’t slowly fading away as generations pass?

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