More specifically: “I devote myself to worshiping the ground she walks on” is the kind of sentence you mainly say for its connotations, not its denotations. In isolation, the connotation would be ‘she’s so much awesome than me’, which is low status, but in context it’s ‘she’s so much more awesome than you’, which is high status.
More specifically: “I devote myself to worshiping the ground she walks on” is the kind of sentence you mainly say for its connotations, not its denotations. In isolation, the connotation would be ‘she’s so much awesome than me’, which is low status, but in context it’s ‘she’s so much more awesome than you’, which is high status.