: Re: Words we may believe are neutral yet have restricted connotations Edit: Perhaps a list of words prone to mis-use would serve the need, here. Is anyone aware of a resource that lists

Many, if not all, words can have emotional baggage.

Words can have many different, and sometimes opposite connotations, and different situtations, places, countries, etc. can give different connotations to the same words.

Colours are the simplest example. Red can mean 'passion', 'danger', 'love', 'blood', and 'special'. White is used for weddings in some cultures; for funerals in others.

Words don't 'pigeonholded usage'; they have culturally defined meanings. These meanings are, in post-modernist parlance, infinitely deferred.

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