An honest mistake, the word has a different connotation in the current context. I'd do a double take if I had heard that, and I know what pronouns are.
The pronouns people use to indicate their sexual and/or gender identification, which may be completely at odds with their appearance, the plumbing that they were born with, the plumbing that they currently have, the chromosomes they have, etc. It's also used by some people to signal their progressiveness.
So, "pronouns" join the word "gay" and rainbows to become part of "that" lexicon. Also, according to Homer Simpson, we lost the names Bruce and Lance.
Connotation
an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Pronoun
a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this ).
Basically you're saying you "have a feeling" pronouns mean something that it doesn't actually mean, because the conservative right has politicised the word to make a scapegoat of the approx 1-2% of the population that would prefer to choose their own. Am I close?
It getting hard to assume you aren't being disingenuous. Are you actually trying to invalidate the idea of a connotation?
I don't "have a feeling", I'm aware that the word "pronoun" has an LGBT connotation, and I'm pretty sure you're aware of it too.
Just because its not in the dictionary definition doesn't mean it somehow an invalid observation. That's the entire reason to call something a connotation.
I'm not being disingenuous. I'm literally quoting the Oxford dictionary.
What you're describing is very much having a feeling. You may refer to your feeling as a fact but that doesn't change anything.
The word pronoun does not have an LGBTQI connotation, except for in your mind, it is simply the word for how language gender people. The reason you think so is because the conservative right has weaponized the word by twisting it's connotation to mean "something gay and probably a paedophile".
So, "pronouns" join the word "gay" and rainbows to become part of "that" lexicon. Also, according to Homer Simpson, we lost the names Bruce and Lance.
an idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
Pronoun
a word that can function as a noun phrase used by itself and that refers either to the participants in the discourse (e.g. I, you ) or to someone or something mentioned elsewhere in the discourse (e.g. she, it, this ).
Basically you're saying you "have a feeling" pronouns mean something that it doesn't actually mean, because the conservative right has politicised the word to make a scapegoat of the approx 1-2% of the population that would prefer to choose their own. Am I close?
I don't "have a feeling", I'm aware that the word "pronoun" has an LGBT connotation, and I'm pretty sure you're aware of it too.
Just because its not in the dictionary definition doesn't mean it somehow an invalid observation. That's the entire reason to call something a connotation.
What you're describing is very much having a feeling. You may refer to your feeling as a fact but that doesn't change anything.
The word pronoun does not have an LGBTQI connotation, except for in your mind, it is simply the word for how language gender people. The reason you think so is because the conservative right has weaponized the word by twisting it's connotation to mean "something gay and probably a paedophile".