The Connotator was my initial choice for the title of my sentence-analyzing blog, not one that was too thought out. In my head, the blog 'destroys' sentences; it breaks them into little pieces so that I cananalyze each element. Well, I guess that is a lot of what I do in the blog. But, it's too campy, too easy.
How to make something sound bad ass and dangerous: Combine the word with The Terminator. The Babynater destroys babies. The Rebublicanater destroys Republicans. Facenater destroys faces.
Wow, Facenater is actually a word. How do I know? No red-dotted lines from Firefox me that I misspelled it. Firefox knows what a facenater is. They define it.
Anyway, -nater is like -meister. Add the -meister suffix to anyone's name to make them sound really, really cool. Ted-meister. It's the Chris-meister! Look out for the Connor-meister...
As much as I love destroying sentences and I will continue to do so, The Connotator is out. Great Connotations is in, for now at least.
The title great Connotations reminds me of the importance of connotation - of how a little means a lot - which is the main focus of these posts. It refers to, or 'is a pun of,' Great Expectations, Charles Dickens Christmas classic also known as the bane of highschoolers that thought taking AP Literature was smart. Obviously that book and this blog are on opposite ends of the spectrum. I'm going for the irony.
In other, similar news, I rethought my labels. Now, they make sense. I had been using them like tags: filling them up with as much as many keywords as I could.
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