How Does Mental Language Line Up With Constructive Language?

There are different ways that a term can refer to or supposite for things. The english word spoon can signify in all three ways. It's becoming clear that it is no easy matter to say how exactly mental language lines up with conventional language. Ocam has quite a lot to say about connotative terms, since they help him to eliminate so much of the clutter from traditional scholastic metaphysics. But scholars have debated whether there ought to be connotative Terms in his mental language.