"I'm not totally up on all the jargon either," she admitted, "but since I met my boyfriend in a coffee shop, I've become a bit partial to them."
There had been a small hesitation on the word boyfriend, not because she was unsure of Vidar or her own feelings on the topic, but because she'd never used the term in reference to any of her own personal relationships before. Lottie decided she liked it. There was a small, shy smile on her lips as she thought about it. Yes. Vidar was her boyfriend, and she'd just told somebody that. She liked it a lot.
But it had been too long since she'd last seen this particular friend, and she didn't want to waste her time with him by concentrating on herself. She could moon over Vidar on her own time.
"Language is such a fluid thing," she commented, knowing she was about to get in way over her head on a discussion of this nature. It was unavoidable with someone like Thoth. But it was also totally worth it to try, because she always learned something new when she talked to him.
"It's constantly changing. For instance, the things that people find offensive now were probably euphemisms that were meant to keep from offending before. Like how you have to say people are developmentally disabled now, when the words retard and moron were actually implemented as very specific terms for those that had mental difficulties, but because people used them as insults, they had to be changed. So how does banning anything really work? People are just going to find ways to say what they want to say anyway, aren't they?