On Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 9:10:41 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "dsi1" > wrote in message
> ...
> > 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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"Retarded personality", I like that phrase.