Have you noticed how Words have Changed over Time?

Have you noticed how Words have Changed over Time?
How Words have changed...

When I was in school, years ago, I was taught...

PUSSY was a CAT
SEX meant GENDER
BITCH was a FEMALE DOG
DICK was a boy's NAME
COCK was a MALE CHICKEN
BANG was a loud SOUND
RUBBER was an ERASER
ASS was a pack ANIMAL
SCREW was a FASTENER
HEAD meant a PART OF THE BODY
BALLS were ROUND TOYS
NUTS were a DRY FRUIT
69 was just a NUMBER

In today's world, I've learned that my education is ruined.

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  • I disregard the way society has changed a lot of stuff by their standards. I still refer to things as i know them. I was taught pussy was pussy lmao. I was taught cock is dick so i cringe when i hear the word cock. I was taught sex meant gettin ya freak on. I was taught the B word is disrespectful and degrading to any gender. Bang and Bangin are two different things. I was taught by Rkelly that a rubber was a condom. I was taught that an ass was different from calling someone an asshole. Screw is different from screwing. Yea they got me with “head” lmao. But its better than sayin fellatio. Ball is different from balls. Nuts meant crazy or his actual balls. 69 always stood for some freaky shit

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  • What they teach you in school is not how people talk irl

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  • I've actually learned so much new slang from this site. When I first joined, I didn't understand a lot of things people were saying like, "YOLO", "friends with benefits", "ONS", "Fuckboi", "Simp", "AF", etc.

    Most of them were new words or acronyms I didn't encounter before though. The biggest one I know that changed on me in my lifetime was sex and gender ceasing to become synonyms.

    • Also "what's up?" confused me when I went to the US for high school although I'm not sure how long it was around. I thought they were actually asking me what is above us rather than asking me how it's going. :-D

    • I used to be the brunt of a lot of jokes back then in high school struggling to understand American slang. For example, a classmate asked me if I like to eat tacos and I replied that I love tacos and he laughed. Then I was confused like, "What's wrong with tacos?" I didn't realize he was asking me if I enjoy cunnilingus. :-D

  • Yeah, words naturally evolve and change over time, all the time. Remember how Marty McFly used to call everything "heavy"? Nowadays, the Zoomers are saying a song "slaps" and wearing "that drip" and saying this party is "lit." And I thought the language in MY era in the 2000's was bad...

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  • No, they are still the same.

    i used all of those when at school.

  • It's not that words changed people with a stick up their assess have, those who feel they're the authority in morality, look what they did to aunt what's her name the smiling black lady on the pancake syrup, just removed her, that's wrong

  • Absofuckinglutely & words are changing nonstop & the way that we spell them as well. From laughing to laughin & from texting to textin.

  • and truth meant, well... now's alternative facts

    • I hate when people say that. I cringe

    • @DizzyDesii unfortunately... that's the world we live in nowadays... "body count" is what makes me cringe big time... lol

    • I could care less about the term. Its the results that would make me cringe

  • And once upon a time gay meant happy and cheerful 😳

    • Good addition to the list, thank you.

    • My pleasure

  • RUBBER was an ERASER. More often it was slip-on coverings for men's shows for wet weather.
    Gay was happy or cheerful.
    Faggot was a bundle of twigs for kindling.
    "Blowjob" started of as "below job" in the Victorian era.

  • And gay meant happy.

  • Yes, and
    War is peace.
    Freedom is slavery.
    Ignorance is strength

    Orwell'sbook "1984 is often on the best seller list and it is not a coincidence.

  • Thanks for the afternoon chuckle.

  • Well a cracker is once again a saltine!

  • Bologna. You're picking words that have been used as that slang for a very long time. Not knowing etymology doesn't mean words changed.

  • Yes, all those words still mean those things as well.

    Retard means to slow in development, which was then used to refer to the mentally underdeveloped, and is now considered a slang for things that are simply stupid. “That test was retarded” (and is considered a bad word by the easily triggered)

    Faggot means a bundle of sticks, which is why it was used to refer to cigarettes and then was used to describe gay men.

    Gay meant happy, which is why it was used to describe flamboyant gay men, then became a negative term for them, then was turned to be the basic definition of homosexual, now it has morphed to mean things that are not normal. “That test was gay”
    But easily triggered people get offended by it now being used that way, yet no one was whining when it stopped being used to mean happy.

    Words evolve and people need to get over it.

  • There are many new words or words that have new meanings including: streaming, zoom meeting, google, smartphone, smartwatch, internet, text, snap, virus, tablet, 2G, 5G, Wi-Fi, 4K, ghosting, Bitcoin, not to mention many acronyms, like WTF, OMG, LOL, LGBTQ+, BIPOC, etc.