The Corruption of Words

English words have changed a whole since the past haven’t they? Let’s examine how a few words have changed to mean a little more than what they used to be.

The first of which is the ever ubiquitous word ‘gay’, which was originally used by in many older pieces of writing to mean ‘happy’ and the word ‘queer’ meant strange. Nowadays, with modern popular usage, ithey are very much the poster words acquainted with homosexuals or their behaviour. Just like it seems a popular trend in the 20th century to call people female dogs in their rap verses. Colour me bemused.

In fact, if you were to apply the modern meanings of words when reading Sherlock Holmes, the amount of ‘ejaculations’ made by Wattson when Holmes explains his deductions, you better believe 221B Baker Street has some serious cleaning agents. Is Mrs Hudson charging extra for that?

I know it seems pretty immature and juvenile of me to keep thinking of this stuff when I am reading classic works of literature, but that’s the issue right there. So many of these words have been corrupted and used so pervasively its hard not to remind yourself of these alternate meanings today. I am only scratching the tip of the iceberg here. Rule 34 applies of course if you would want to dig even deeper.

Now I have to touch on names.  How about ‘Dick’? How many of you would keep thinking of a schlong if you were to meet someone named Dick? Maybe as time went by you won’t notice it so much, but believe me, I would keep poking fun of a person named ‘Dick’ (in my mind of course) the first time I met him.
By the way, the common names used for the everyday man used to be ‘Tom’, ‘Dick’ and ‘Harry’. In this current era, you would be hard pressed to find someone calling their son ‘Dick’. Just hope to God that he doesn’t saddle his unfortunate offspring with  ‘Dickson’.

Oh, and here’s that link made between the Chinese and the Americans. The word ‘Wang’, known to the Chinese as a surname, is actually a slang for the penis over in the States (just how many names can they come up with for that little dingdong anyway?), along with so many other words and nicknames for that particular body part.

Truly the ‘Chinese connection’ all over.

Do you see the words for female parts getting abused like that? All they have are ‘jugs’, ‘racks’,  ‘bazookas’ and… I think I just answered my own question.

Seriously, what is with the corruption of words these days? You would have thought as time goes by, words would evolve. Have deeper meanings, Become more metaphysical, have more words that explain the philosophies of living on this earth and the essence of our existence. But that’s giving humanity too much credit there.