I never said it didn't have alternate uses.
Usages of the term "bastard":
bas·tard
[bas-terd]
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noun 1. a person born of unmarried parents; an illegitimate child.
2. Slang . a. a vicious, despicable, or thoroughly disliked person: Some bastard slashed the tires on my car.
b. a person, especially a man: The poor bastard broke his leg.
3. something irregular, inferior, spurious, or unusual.
4.
bastard culverin.
adjective 5. illegitimate in birth.
6. spurious; not genuine; false: The architecture was bastard Gothic.
7. of abnormal or irregular shape or size; of unusual make or proportions: bastard quartz; bastard mahogany.
8. having the appearance of; resembling in some degree: a bastard Michelangelo; bastard emeralds.
9. Printing . (of a character) not of the font in which it is used or found.
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English < Anglo-French bastard, Medieval Latin bastardus (from 11th century), perhaps < Germanic (Ingvaeonic) *bāst-, presumed variant of *bōst- marriage + Old French -ard
-ard, taken as signifying the offspring of a polygynous marriage to a woman of lower status, a pagan tradition not sanctioned by the church; compare Old Frisian bost marriage < Germanic *bandstu-, a noun derivative of Indo-European *bhendh-
bind; the traditional explanation of Old French bastard as derivative of fils de bast “child of a packsaddle” is doubtful on chronological and geographical grounds
Synonyms
6. fake, imitation, imperfect, sham, irregular, phony.
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So... keeping in mind it's origins, to which usage are you referring?
But considering I'm the one who used it, I think I know how it was being used more than a bunch of self-righteous people do.
You are now ascribing motives to your detractors. The simple fact is that no matter which way you use the term, it is an insult. It's origins define it as a very unsavory bit of terminology. To be called a bastard in
any sense of the word was to have an onus of shame placed upon you.
So what you are saying is that you used a word you knew was an insult. I say this because even after pointing out the word's meanings, both in modern culture and as used historically, you stand by it, saying you purposely chose the word.
Especially since every single one of you have only brought it up to try and start a fight.
No one here is starting a fight. You, on the other hand, harshly judged a woman for having a child out of wedlock and called that child a bastard. You then referred to a poster here as a bastard, with you claiming you knew exactly what you meant by it. Well, if you meant it by any of it's definitions, as shown above, then you outright insulted that poster.
Again, this is assuming you actually know the usage of the word and what it means. You insist that you do, but a more cognizant person would have realized some time ago that it's usage in modern
and ancient parlance is
most inflammatory, and that to use it again, this time directed at another poster, would be a very unwise course of action. Yet you did so, reinforcing again that you knew exactly what you were doing.
Doubly so since, in the post you're all flying off the handle about, all I did was say she's one of many people like her in Hollywood and is in no way remarkable, She really is just another dumb blond with a bastard child.
No, and you know better. If nothing else, just seeing the reactions in this thread, you know that it is an inflammatory word, and yet you keep using it, going so far as to call another poster a bastard. The word isn't clinical as you seem to think it is. It's not the name of a disease, and it's not a state of being in any legitimate sense of the word. The word was introduced as a way of marking less than desirable children based on their parentage. You claim to know the word's meaning, and even after the definitions were shown to you, you continued to make the claim you know the word's meaning. Which means you knowingly used an inflammatory word against another poster.
Now I ask you, do you really know the word's meaning, or did you make a simple mistake and thought it meant something else? Something less inflammatory?
