What are writers missing by not having connotative tools?
• Connotative meaning is the soul of all literary symbolism. Metaphor, simile, and other figures of speech spell the difference between great writing and ordinary writing. Among other things, connotative tools will provide writers with access to countless new, fresh, meaningful, powerful, and accurate figures of speech. • Word processors such as Microsoft Word and WordPerfect have built-in denotative thesauruses and grammar checkers. But they do not have connotative thesauruses or “connotation-checkers.” And they don t have connotative dictionaries either. • Today’s software, hardware, and print-based language reference tools have no way of dealing with the radically different connotative meanings in phrases such as “please go”, “get out”, and “fuck off” (even though these are denotative synonyms). • Similarly, the legendary clumsiness of computer-based language translation owes its inadequacy to its total failure to cope with connotative meaning. • Artificial intelligence applications
