Re: Schools working to overhaul the art of computer programming (TheColumbian)

John Smith wrote:

.... snip ...

There was recently an item in the news in the US about a high
school student who was disciplined for using the phrase "that's
so gay" in the very sense you cite above. She apparently had no
intention of slurring homosexuals, but it was misinterpreted.
Somebody once said that a dictionary is merely a snapshot of a
language at a given moment.

Pure idiocy. She should have a profitable lawsuit. Old meanings
don't go away, they just become rare.

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