[yuuu]

> For that matter, people call themselves "gay" for "joyous".

Uh... I don't think people do that anymore.

[mdp2021]

They do, and some will absolutely do (to some it is important to "assess" language) - it really depends on what you mean with "people" (of course I meant a subset).

What happened there is, in the succession of editings I left that 'people' there in a way that happened to be ambiguous. I made a composition error out of inattention.

[yuuu]

The subset you're talking about is the union of extremely non-native English speakers and native English speakers over 120 years old.