It became so because people used it in the same way people use retarded, retard, gay etc. It's rather counterproductive to argue that you shouldn't use words in a certain way when you're doing the exact same thing in your argument.
Dumb historically referred to people who were unable to speak as in the phrase 'deaf and dumb'.
"I mean, if everyone had a soul, there would be no contrast by which we could appreciate it. For giving us this perspective, we thank you." - Nate
my iphone 4 deleted all my text messages
- 26/10/2011 10:35:51 PM
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Is there any particular reason those messages need to remain part of the record?
- 27/10/2011 12:16:24 AM
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my text messages are important
- 27/10/2011 02:09:24 AM
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If it's not stupid shit you should have transferred it. *NM*
- 27/10/2011 05:14:08 AM
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Transferred it how, where? *NM*
- 27/10/2011 11:54:05 AM
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There are at least five or six programs that do it.
- 27/10/2011 02:19:42 PM
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please suggest one that you have used and I will use it for the future. *NM*
- 27/10/2011 04:50:01 PM
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Check the app store - honestly there are a few that do different things. *NM*
- 27/10/2011 04:55:29 PM
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I haven't used any and I don't know what the client used, but a quick Google search should work.
- 28/10/2011 05:59:39 AM
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Couldn't you assume that there was, based on the fact that she wanted them? *NM*
- 27/10/2011 03:07:41 PM
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Ah, so thats why you didnt respond to the 187 texts I sent confessing my love last nigh. *NM*
- 27/10/2011 02:12:50 AM
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lol yeah except it just happened a few hours ago not last night 
*NM*
- 27/10/2011 02:36:55 AM
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*NM*
- 27/10/2011 02:36:55 AM
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Okay okay, you got me. It was just one text and it was a cock pic not a love letter. Same diff *NM*
- 27/10/2011 04:54:18 AM
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For the record
- 27/10/2011 04:54:46 PM
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Wow the PC bullshit meter just went through the roof on that one
- 27/10/2011 06:31:40 PM
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Agreed.
- 27/10/2011 06:43:44 PM
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not to mention it's how these words become so offensive in the first place.
- 27/10/2011 06:59:21 PM
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This isn't actually true.
- 27/10/2011 07:29:02 PM
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They probably shouldn't be using 'dumb' in their definition if they're making an argument against
- 28/10/2011 01:24:50 AM
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Why not? *NM*
- 28/10/2011 02:06:12 PM
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Because 'dumb' wasn't always synonymous with stupid.
- 28/10/2011 02:41:18 PM
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Yeah.
- 28/10/2011 03:08:29 PM
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It is a derision of the mentally handicapped though.
- 27/10/2011 07:25:29 PM
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off topic question: how did "gay" come to be applied to homosexuals in the first place?
- 27/10/2011 07:52:53 PM
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Let me guess: straight white male? Mmm... privilege. *NM*
- 28/10/2011 04:09:44 AM
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First thing I thought off. Add "14 year old" to the list, though! *NM*
- 28/10/2011 06:38:01 AM
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