"To advertising writers, connotation is a matter of life or death. There isn’t an ad agency in the world that would hire a copywriter who couldn’t tell the difference between “childlike” and “childish”—two words with the same denotation. The difference—connotatively—is huge. “Childlike” implies innocence and naturalness; childlike people are free of cynicism and corruption; in a world marred by vice and vanity and villainy, they’ve managed to remain guileless and trusting. They’re often thought of as “saints.” “Childish” people are something else: they’re arrested adolescents at best, and bigmouthed brats at worst; they make juvenile demands, they throw tantrums, and they know only one pronoun: “me.” Nobody has ever mistaken a childish man or woman for a saint. Two words: one denotation...vastly different connotations."
(Found somewhere online, with no proper attribution)
I guess I’m more of a “bigmouted brat” and some people would even say I’m an “arrested adolescent”, than “free of cynicism and corruption”. Definitely I ain’t trusting… But I know more pronouns other than “me”. (I guess, I mean… oh, wait… Fuck! –That was not a tantrum, and I don’t make juvenile demands, just can someone explain… oh, wait…-)
Hahaha…. XD
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