phat/fat, phuque&suque

[Lynne Murphy]

>'shit' vs. 'sh*t'
>Denotation and pronunciation identical
>Connotation: [none] vs. 'prudishness of the writer'/'offensiveness
>of the word'
>
>'principal' vs. 'principle' [adjective]
>Denotation and pronunciation identical
>Connotation: [none] vs. 'illiteracy/carelessness of the writer'
>
>etc., etc.
>
>-- Doug Wilson


That's not connotation, though, that's social meaning (the
prudishness one being a case of affective meaning).  They're all
cases of expressive (vs. denotative) meaning, but not necessarily
connotation.

Lynne


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