My this story is queer (trying to remind everyone of the correct use of this term before the public education system destroyed literacy) - anywhooo can we all just hold hands - say "Fabulous" and get back to Mason Hoops.
On a side note, I want to let my long time board friends know that I like/love women especially when they dress up like Princess Leia with the chain around her neck, holding a tray of sweet rolls and a cup of coffee while talking dirty....oh never mind.
Just to annoy you: What's with the cynicism? Words change. They always have and always will. And thank god they do. Our language would be so drab and boring if it remained static. Even the term "literacy" has changed (and the word literacy is only about 130 years old by the way). Many grammarians would have decried the change from adjective to noun from the root word literate -- a lot of the people who compiled and wrote our first dictionaries HATED tacking prefixes and suffixes on to words to change their function, especially if they were Latin based roots. I can only imagine what they would think of what we have down with the F-word.
Hell, to be called literate in the classical sense of the word to to be able to read and write in Greek and Latin. I'm pretty sure 100 percent of us on this board are illiterate under the original definition of the term. Can we blame public education for the de-emphasis of Greek and Latin in modern education? We might be able to.
The term literacy now has expanded into uses extend beyond just "reading and writing" and into any acquired skill, including navigating one's own culture, or the cultures of other people. For instance, being able to navigate the conventions set forth and enforced by this community is a form of literacy.
Anyway, I hope I've distracted everyone long enough. Carry on.
