So I've written about this before, over at my friends blog. The stupid, lame-ass argument that gay people can't get married because we can't change the meaning of the word! It means a union between a man and a woman! It's not that people against gay marriage are nosy bigots, they're just grammar nazis!
Anyway, this has recently been taken to a new level. This video is patently hilarious:
WAKE UP!!!!!! GET WITH IT PEOPLE. Did you know that they edit the dictionary??? There are people that actually study language use, and then, get a job with Miriam Webster, and make the dictionary reflect how people use words! It's atrocious!
WAKE UP PEOPLE! WAKE UP! They edit the dictionary to reflect usage. Regularly. I'm surprised its taken them this long to change the definition of marriage - in fact, I'm surprised they still have two separate definitions. Entirely unnecessary. Most hilarious is the insinuation that they added this definition as part of a gay liberal pinko vegetarian political conspiracy. If there's one thing that's dumber than thinking that you can prevent people from doing something because it doesn't jive with your definition of a particular word, it's thinking that when that definition actually changes it's part of a conspiracy and you're "losing".
When you scramble to prescribe grammar to keep your sad little world from falling down around you, the battle was lost loooong ago.
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