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[so the proposition would be like "Mint chocolate chip ice cream is disgusting to Elmo."] On relativistic views, it expresses one proposition, but whether that proposition is true or false depends on who's evaluating it. You evaluate it as true (maybe?), my wife evaluates it as false.

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there's a lot here, as you'd expect, and I haven't looked at this stuff nigh on twenty years, but: on views where the parameter depends on context of utterance, the proposition the expressed varies with context of utterance. Like "I am sitting" expresses different propositions if I say it or you do.

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both taste ascriptions like "mint chocolate chip ice cream is disgusting" and descriptive claims about the future have spurred a pretty big literature, sometimes with the idea that there is a hidden parameter; which may be supplied by the context of utterance or context of evaluation

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So anyway... as usual in philosophy, the answer is "it's complicated, both the specific examples you raise are complicated in different ways, nobody agrees on anything, and a lot of ink has been spilled about it"!

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