Young people use the word "gay" to denote something that's lame, eccentric or risible.
Check out the link below for examples of Aussie Rules marks (catches) and hairstyles through the ages…note the recurrence of the word "ripper" to denote something really, really good.
The problem is the incessant, bellowing message that all women are the same, and that the way to denote something as female-friendly is to cover it in pink.
That film in tandem with Inception, set in the subconscious dream world, seem to denote something of a dark period for DiCaprio who is anything but gloomy in demeanour in Beverly Hills today.
(Most of these institutions are now called "universities" according to the new definition of what counts as such, viz that it has more than 4,000 students and awards "degrees" - this latter word being a homonym of a term that used to denote something rather different in quality and status.
These terms were reinforced by another, which appeared to denote something not determinable in logical concepts and in some way mysterious: "nescio quid" or "je ne sais quoi"; an expression particularly frequent in Italy (non so che), and imitated in other countries.
The image of toothy open mouths - smiling or not - denote something - well something more predatory and sexual.
I was surprised to see that surrounding words in multiple parentheses, also called an "echo," remains common practice to denote something or someone as Jewish.
