A coworker of mine was once told of a common acquaintance “oh, he understands” “… o…k…” “you don’t understand at all” “frankly honey, right now I don’t know up from down, but I’m hoping you’ll kindly explain” “ understand means that he walks down the other side of the road*. to understand) has come to mean “be LGBT(keep on adding letters)”. Some of the acceptable words aren’t even nouns or adjectives: the verb entender (lit. If you’re asking for the traditional words, there’s a ton but they tend to be offensive. In Spanish from Spain, nowadays, the polite word is gay, and it has been around long enough to be pronounced as if it really was a Spanish word ( gái vs the original English pronunciation, which would be géi in Spanish phonics).
