Originally Posted By: Alex Williams
 Originally Posted By: morphememedley
I'm glad someone has the temerity to use gay to have a meaning other than the one currently most common. We should not lose perfectly good definitions to trends.


Begging your pardon, but I believe you are making a new use of the word temerity , which Merriam-Webster defines as "unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition." I think you mean to say audacity or courage, unless you're expressing schadenfreude at someone else's display of temerity.

/This from a guy who once said "Platonic method" when he meant to say "Socratic method," and who can't keep Cormac McCarthy and Carson McCullers straight.


I'm trying the “extreme venturesomeness” definition of temerity as given by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, used in playful overstatement.