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Coñotations is an intriguing composition that uses word relationships to manipulate semantic shifts.

Reading the poem will reveal that each line contains significant implications that people who are
categorized as "coño" use in their speech. By "utterance," it is meant the spoken discourse that this
group of people utilizes when conversing informally. For lines 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, and 12, the
author employed code-switching and code-mixing. The writing style of the author is what shapes one
world's image and generates another world full of other visions. Through the usage of the imagery
contained in the utterances, the audience is introduced to this type of literature so that they, as readers,
may relate to what is shown in it and finally jump from one world to another. The repeated use of the
terms "dude," "guy," "pare," and "he's" is very important in this poetry. This could indicate that the
discourses in the poem are typically spoken by men.

Additionally, we can see that the use of the terms "naman" and "talaga" served to emphasize the
meaning in each of the utterances. The content words in Filipino found in numbers 5 (bwelta - verb), 6
(hirap - adjective), 7 (areglo - verb), and 10 (kolehiyalas - noun, tusok - verb, tuhog - verb) also helped in
giving more meaning to the text. Transliteration serves as a strategy to convey to readers that the
poetry has a light atmosphere, which will inevitably pique their attention in the entire text. For example,
the phrase "...we know how to look where we came from." is directly translated from the Filipino phrase
"Marunong kaming tumanaw sa aming pinanggalingan," which indicates that the author also intended
to draw on the readers' prior understanding of the line's subject and somehow depict our culture. For
the interpretation of common tropes, especially metaphors and metonyms, cultural knowledge is
crucial.  Cultural knowledge offers the common settings that grant referential accessibility to discourse
themes, in this case poetry as a medium of discourse, along with the circumstances and history of a
particular discourse.

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