Denotation / Connotation Awareness
Have you interacted with any meanings of words lately where you were fully-cognizant of denotation / connotation? Maybe the word had a positive/negative/perspective connotation that you reflected upon? Maybe you thought about a possible shift (even if you didn't know it for sure) of a word? Maybe you interpreted how shifts have occurred within certain words?
Post (the OED entry for this word is interesting) here.
F.Y.I - Peeps rule!
posted by D. Robin @ 10/23/2006
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Hi Ashley - you have excellent taste in music (have you heard Bono's version of Hallelujah? or Tori Amos' version of Famous Blue Raincoat...?)
Anyhow, the word, Hallelujah, is a Hebrew one. Seeing that Cohen was a Jewish-Canadian poet turned songwriter, I'm sure there is some background about this word that plays into David's songs (Psalms).
"but you don't really care for music, do you?" (Cohen).
To continue with more on Hallelujah (I have 10 versions of it on my mp3 player thanks to Ashley's and my obsession with it - I'm not that much of a fan of the Bono version but some of the more traditional ones by Jeff Buckley, John Cale, and Allison Crowe), I will take a detour from connotations for a moment to just say that I was listening to the Phantom of the Opera soundtrack the other day and noticed this part where the Phantom calls Christine a "Delilah." Delilah took away Samson's strength by cutting off his hair. In Hallelujah, there is a line "she broke your throne and cut your hair." I felt so happy when I noticed the same allusion being used for both Phantom and Hallelujah.
Now, on the topic of a connotation I've wondered about lately. I was wondering how the word 'music' has changed over time. Music means something different to everyone because of what types you like. MAlso, music can be negative or positive because it can remind you of good or bad events and conveys a lot of themes. Then, there's singing and playing an instrument and the connotations involved with each. So really, there seems to me like there would be an infinite amount of connotations for music.
~ Emily Clar
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