It will come as a surprise to many, no doubt, that the prison yard could have connotations of glamour.
In common language, the phrases "to look up to" and "to look down on" have connotations of admiration and condescension in addition to their obvious reference to physical viewpoint.
While ours is a living language, in flux and rich with regional variations, some of which have connotations of race and class, were your students to use "nucular" in a job interview a decade hence, this would be regarded not as a charming colloquialism but a mark of ignorance.
Considering all the words for mental illness, both those used by medical doctors and those that are cruel slurs used by the general public, it is striking how many of them have connotations of being broken or disorganized: deranged, crazy (which means cracked itself a derogatory term), unglued, having a screw loose, unhinged, off the wall.
"Considering all the words for mental illness, both those used by medical doctors and those that are cruel slurs used by the general public, it is striking how many of them have connotations of being broken or disorganised: deranged, crazy (which means cracked— itself a derogatory term), unglued, having a screw loose, unhinged, off the wall".
The term carer can be problematic, being considered by some to have connotations of dependency and of minimising the significance of the relationship.
