A proposition is necessarily true in the case of connotative names just in case that the connotation of the names is by convention the same, as in 'Bachelors are unmarried'.
Because these androgynous males were commonly married to a masculine man, or had sex with men, and the masculine females had feminine women as wives, the term berdache had a clear homosexual connotation.
His comments about Mr Fabius, he insisted, "had no religious connotation"; the phrase was common in French.
Arthur Hull, a 53-year-old Californian who is considered the father of drum circles in America, says: "It no longer has the bad connotation of hippie thunder-drumming.
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The definition of "wife" is open to question too: Gnostic writing also features terms such as "bridal chamber", used without any connotation of sexual intimacy.In this section Virtual relations Launderers Anonymous Brideshead revisited ReprintsNor is it unusual for other ancient texts to differ from the Bible's four "canonical" gospels.
Now even the head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, America's main markets watchdog, says they have shed their "distinctly negative connotation" and may be a force for good by helping improve how public companies are run.
The term has a rather humorous sexual connotation which probably does not apply to either Barack Obama or Angela Merkel.
Both seem like government "endorsements" of religion, even if the latter carries a stronger connotation thereof.Despite its limitations, the endorsement test goes a long way toward accounting for what's wrong with certain government-sponsored religious messages and programmes.
In both cases the slang sexual connotation has overtaken the original one.Personal ads provide an entire subgenre of euphemism.
It would be easy to shrug it off as an unfortunate connotation of an innocent use of "place", but like the use of "spook" in Philip Roth's "The Human Stain", it wasn't coincidence at all.
