Changing Times Times brings changes. This is especially true of the way people talk. If I could go to Heaven and come back twenty years from now I probably would not understand half of what people were saying.
I remember when “Good Morning America” was what people said when they got out of bed, and “ABC” was something we taught children. I remember when a mackintosh was an apple, a blackberry was something you put in a pie, and a web was something you swept off the ceiling. There was a time when a pilot was someone who piloted a ship or a plane. Now it something you hold in your hand.
Some words we use today don’t sound like what they mean. E-bay sounds like a place to go fishing. Ubid is what you would say to your friend at an auction, and a blog sounds like something that lives in brackish water.
There was a time when an alcoholic was a drunk, a beggar was a bum, and when unmarried couples lived together it was called shacking-up. Now they have a live-in partner.
In the good-old-days a panhandler was not in the kitchen, and a person with pride was considered stuck-up. Now a stuck-up person has self-esteem, and a panhandler deserves our support. The old way of talking may not have been political correct, but it was more honest and more explicit than the way people talk today. And you didn’t have to guess what they were saying.
LWA.