"'Booty call' and 'butt dial' has been offered up as an example of where the literal meaning of two phrases is the same but the implied meaning is very different (denotative vs connotative meanings).
"Today a coffee mug gave me another example: 'dad bod' and 'father figure'"
-- Wendy Palmer (![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendypalmer@mastodon.au), 2022-12-25
[Today is the first day of Kwanzaa; the second day of Christmas (Western and new-calendar Orthodox), Boxing Day, Wren Day, Feast of St. Stephen, and Mummer's Day; the sixth day of Yule; and the eighth day of Chanukah (which ends at nightfall). It's also the 231st anninersary of the birth of Charles Babbage (b. 1791-12-26, d. 1871-10-18), father of the digital computer.]
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