"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 8:05:45 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
>> "dsi1" <> wrote in message
>>
>> >> > You said "retards." Bully for you! Now I gots free license to use
>> >> > this
>> >> > word! Ho ho ho, and use it I will!
>> >>
>> >> I am mystified?
>> >>
>> >
>> > In the states, the word has been tabu for the last 5 years or so. It's
>> > quite a change in attitude that has taken place. That's rather silly
>> > because typically it refers to a person that is acting stupidly and not
>> > someone with a low IQ or learning impaired. A person feeling smug or
>> > superior to those less fortunate than themselves and uses the word
>> > "retarded" to denigrate those folks would pretty much be a dickhead. My
>> > recommendation is that people not be a dickhead.
>>
>> Ok. Retarded can actually mean a lot of different things.
>
> Even car engines can be retarded - it they use gasoline/petrol with too
> low an octane.
>
>>
>> In this case, for me .. a vicious and spiteful person, constantly going
>> out
>> to hurt someone. Too fixated to understand their sickness.
>>
>
> Interesting usage. We don't use retarded in that sense but english is ever
> changing - perhaps we will in the future.

To clarify, in my parlance a mean, spiteful and retarded personality.

Yes, car engines can be retarded as well as many other things. It has a
wide application.


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