ha ha... i only say... "so gay.." supposely... this guy u know who is straight wore a pink flowery shirt... wot do u say??? ...SO GAY!! lol.. gay also has the meaning of happy n full of fun... lol..
i still wouldn't say "so gay" if someone wore a pink flowery shirt. Jay Chou wears pink flowery shirts. i think he looks a bit feminine, but it looks fine.
I still say it The reason being, sometimes I just can't find the words to describe it and "that's so gay" seems to fit the bill nicely.
I never use the word "gay" as a causual adjective, negative or otherwise. However, at time I say it to describe that unusual happy feeling , like the OLD definition...
I was really curious about this notion... So I did some look-ups: "GAY -- 1178, "full of joy or mirth," from O.Fr. gai "gay, merry," perhaps from Frank. *gahi (cf. O.H.G. wahi "pretty"). Meaning "brilliant, showy" is from c.1300. OED gives 1951 as earliest date for slang meaning "homosexual" (adj.), but this is certainly too late; gey cat "homosexual boy" is attested in N. Erskine's 1933 dictionary of "Underworld & Prison Slang;" the term gey cat (gey is a Scot. variant of gay) was used as far back as 1893 in Amer.Eng. for "young hobo," one who is new on the road and usually in the company of an older tramp, with catamite connotations. But Josiah Flynt ["Tramping With Tramps," 1905] defines gay cat as, "An amateur tramp who works when his begging courage fails him." Gey cats also were said to be tramps who offered sexual services to women. The "Dictionary of American Slang" reports that gay (adj.) was used by homosexuals, among themselves, in this sense since at least 1920. Rawson ["Wicked Words"] notes a male prostitute using gay in reference to male homosexuals (but also to female prostitutes) in London's notorious Cleveland Street Scandal of 1889. Ayto ["20th Century Words"] calls attention to the ambiguous use of the word in the 1868 song "The Gay Young Clerk in the Dry Goods Store," by U.S. female impersonator Will S. Hays. The word gay in the 1890s had an overall tinge of promiscuity -- a gay house was a brothel. The suggestion of immorality in the word can be traced back to 1637. Gay as a noun meaning "a (usually male) homosexual" is attested from 1971." Found on Online Etymology Dictionary The usage got really complicated as the word originally (and still) means "full of joy or mirth", so comes the notion of "pretty happy and gay" But the conventional and dominating defintion now is "homosexual boy" which messed up the usage... Sigh, I guess I need to do some more dig up (for cool adjectives!) if I want to avoid using "it's so cool/bizarre/strange/weird" on repeat... =_=b
i'm fine with it meaning "happy" and "joyful" or w/e... but do people really mean it when they say "that's so gay!" after seeing something pathetic? ..... yeah i really doubt that. but okay, i feel so uuugh bad right now.... i haven't said the phrase in like.. what? four years, and yesterday it suddenly slipped. i was going to say "yeah, i know its lame" but i got a "g" sound out and it turned into "gay". im so ashamed. =(
yeah`` we used to say it a lot out of habit buh none of us think about it much`` i hate it when some skip chicks say: "That's so fetch`'' sounds so tryhard```or when some of my friends are like..sup Nigga? love` mon
people have gotten way too comfortable with saying this phrase as if it's nothing.... it's sooooo annoying >.<
