That's clutching at straws: gei means art or craft, and was only ever
mapped to gay after gay changed from happy to homosexual. You've
confused causation and coincidence.
On 28/12/2011 10:06, john lewis wrote:
> Perhaps in this case it wasn't a change of usage so much as adoption
> of a Japanese word. Edmund de Waal mentions in his book (The Hare with
> Amber Eyes, p298) that the word 'gei', written in roman script, was in
> common usage during the American occupation of Japan after the end of
> WW2.
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