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To: SiouxPal who wrote (24794)	6/28/2005 7:29:05 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Respond to of 361441

Denotation versus Connotation. A denotation is a word's literal meaning; a connotation is the suggestions and associations that go with it. Dictionaries usually give a word's denotations, but are often less useful in revealing connotations; a good writer, though, will be very conscious of the hidden meanings carried by every word. Think, for instance, about the phrases make love, have intercourse, make whoopie, copulate, mate, and screw — they all have the same literal meaning, but they're not at all interchangeable. See Diction, andromeda.rutgers.edu and a happy, guckin' day to you, too