phat/fat, phuque&suque

[Douglas G. 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.

Well, I didn't really mean these seriously.

Rudy's 'light'/'lite' example is better. One might add 'Christmas'/'Xmas',
etc. These are still marginal, though, IMHO.

If Lynne or another local savant will be so kind as to present a brief
authoritative definition of 'connotation' as opposed to 'expressive
meaning' (preferably with examples), I'll try to work with it. It seems to
me that denotation is not always clearly distinct from connotation, nor
connotation from 'social meaning'/'affective meaning'.

-- Doug Wilson