Timeline for Why does 'up' have a positive connotation and 'down' have a negative connotation?
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| Dec 4, 2014 at 14:28 | comment | added | keshlam | Not all of us, not always; I believe you are strongly overstating the case, at least as this native speaker of American English uses the words. We agree that we disagree. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 10:04 | comment | added | Yaitzme | Up and down might by themselves be words that indicate direction. But we've taken the direction denoted by 'up' to be in a positive connotation. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 2:58 | comment | added | keshlam | @Yaitzme: The majority of uses of up and down indicate nothing but direction. And I'm not completely convinced that the majority of the remainder are a good fit for this question. I will grant that when they are deliberately being used as value judgements, "up" tends to be the good side, but I think the question as posed overstates that effect. | |
| Dec 3, 2014 at 9:57 | comment | added | Yaitzme | Context does matter yes. But a majority of uses of up and down do fall into the question type. | |
| Dec 3, 2014 at 6:30 | history | answered | keshlam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |