>Jim,
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>Oh, for goodness sakes...<s>
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>Some people are
so touchy! <g>
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>Actually, I dislike the general degrading of the english language I've seen over the last 40-50 years. Gay used to mean happy. Now it means anything homosexual and most, if not all folks I know who are homosexual are anything but happy. ...
"Gay" is precisely the example that came to my mind when reading some earlier messages in this thread.
Back to "evangelist": here in Bolivia (and S.America in general, I would say), this term is used specifically for a protestant preacher, and sometimes to the protestant believers in general (the term "protestant" being hardly known by most people).
Hilmar.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
