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I know Chibi Robo was made in the 2000s but how did this slip in?
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I fear for the younger generation, who apparently learned to read from vidya games.
Queer just means funny /odd here despite it being used offensively.So I was replaying this game for the first in years and I don't how I never caught this line
Perhaps I'm mistaken but "queer" in that context is always negative right?
It's in the English dictionary
There's being well intentioned and then there's this thread. I'm just curious in what scenario could the game be using the word queer in any ther way than it is obviously being used?
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And gay also means "lighthearted and carefree."
So yeah, not bad words when not used in a negative or derogatory context.
I've never seen it as a verb before :O
Google is your friend, OP.
Gamers also need to play more games when you check some recent threads about some popular games.
In this instance, queer simply means its other primary use in the English language as "odd" or "unusual".
All it takes is a second to think that the game probably wouldn't be using the word queer to call a chest gay. It might be a well-intentioned thread but it's also a bit silly and thoughtless.
Yeah it's almost like its most popular use for the last 70 years has been a slur or something. Crazy that.
"Queer" was still being used for strange, esp. for translators that looked for literal translations in Japanese games.
Same. I learned something today.
Why are you purposefully being standoffish about this?
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I did but I mistakenly believed its use had fallen out of favor due to negative connotations.
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Because one person made a mistake about a word that took decades to be reclaimed and you fucking yucksters are tripping over yourselves laughing it up without giving a shit about how much that word was used to hurt the Queer community.
Y'all can get fucked.
It's definitely a bit old-fashioned, at the very least, though that's probably the point.
I get what you're trying to say, but it hasn't been a slur for quite as long as it was a literary term. It's been a literary term for "strange" for much much longer.
Queer became a slur once it was adopted to also mean "gay". Then re-adopted again.
"Entering the English language in the 16th century, queer originally meant "strange", "odd", "peculiar", or "eccentric." It might refer to something suspicious or "not quite right", or to a person with mild derangement or who exhibits socially inappropriate behaviour."
And then
"queer came to be used pejoratively against those with same-sex desires or relationships in the late 19th century."
Queer - Wikipedia
That's not really what happened?
Nobody here is saying this word isn't (and hasn't been for a long time) used to hurt people. Nobody is laughing. Calm down.
The context used here is very specific and can't be mistaken for a slur. It's obviously old english in the OP's capture, and I doubt some homophobic person in the localization team laughed maniacally while putting it in either.
What's that from? I know that Holmes and Watson love ejaculating, with quotes like " "Thank God!" I ejaculated from my very heart. " and " I ejaculated after I had twice read over the extraordinary announcement. "
Bonus ejaculation:
"So he sat as I dropped off to sleep, and so he sat when a sudden ejaculation caused me to wake up, and I found the summer sun shining into the apartment."
It's still a word with a meaning that appears widely in literature.
these specific ejaculations come from Poirot's good partner Hastings
Why must you toy with me!
Man Victorian Era English Literature was WILD
Almost like context is key to any sentence intention and use of a word.
we could all use some solid dick these daysVocabulary evolving is neat, you should read about it
Okay, I need to know: what in the world did it use to mean?Vocabulary evolving is neat, you should read about it
The origin of queer is odd or strange afaik. At some point people started using it in a negative way towards LGBT+ people which stuck until this day.
There's many people that have reclaimed it at this point & use it to dscribe themselves, but also a lot of LGBT+ people still consider it a slur & especially hate it being used as an umbrella word for LGBT+ people. I for one don't like to be referred to as it & I know most of my friends don't either. I still regularly get called queer by straight guys in a very negative way if I'm open about being a lesbian & non-binary like my prior workplace, so yeah, obviously a lot of us have problems with it. And obviously it's still something that gets used by cishet people against LGBT+ people. I love using dyke as a lesbian & have reclaimed it for myself after years of despising it, but I wouldn't fault any other lesbians being uncomfortable with using it either and I don't use it for others unless I know they're okay with it.
Anyway, with that out of the way, I think this is fine. It seems it's used with it's original meaning & not the derogatory one. I do think it has no place in new media unless it's in an Victorian London setting or whatever time period it came from or uses the language from that time period & obviously if it's used by a character who identifies as queer, but yeah, this seems harmless.
could really live without the fucking (most likely) cishet ppl in here immediately being like "lol this is why ppl hate era" what the fuck is wrong with you. it's a valid concern.
There's many people that have reclaimed it at this point & use it to dscribe themselves, but also a lot of LGBT+ people still consider it a slur & especially hate it being used as an umbrella word for LGBT+ people. I for one don't like to be referred to as it & I know most of my friends don't either. I still regularly get called queer by straight guys in a very negative way if I'm open about being a lesbian & non-binary like my prior workplace, so yeah, obviously a lot of us have problems with it. And obviously it's still something that gets used by cishet people against LGBT+ people. I love using dyke as a lesbian & have reclaimed it for myself after years of despising it, but I wouldn't fault any other lesbians being uncomfortable with using it either and I don't use it for others unless I know they're okay with it.
Anyway, with that out of the way, I think this is fine. It seems it's used with it's original meaning & not the derogatory one. I do think it has no place in new media unless it's in an Victorian London setting or whatever time period it came from or uses the language from that time period & obviously if it's used by a character who identifies as queer, but yeah, this seems harmless.
could really live without the fucking (most likely) cishet ppl in here immediately being like "lol this is why ppl hate era" what the fuck is wrong with you. it's a valid concern.
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