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> Hackers, and thus by definition the people with the most reasonable claim to define the term, having done so originally.

and in the first half of the 20th century the word 'gay' meant 'happy'. shall we insist that's still the proper meaning of the word because that's how it was defined originally, by people with the most reasonable claim to define the term at the time?



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