On Nov 29, 2007 1:09 AM, Roger Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's Dictionary.com's definition: > > 1. words or language having little or no sense or meaning.
> 1. Words or signs having no intelligible meaning: a message that > was nonsense until decoded. These are the only relevant definitions, since the others have nothing to do with words, language, or meaning. If a word has meaning, it's not nonsense. > I guess it all depends on how you interpret it. When I called nkep > nonsensical in my judgment, I meant it was a silly, intelligible word. > However, it is a word that could very well describe an action. "intelligible" could just as well be called a "silly, intelligible word". That "ligib" sound is just ridiculous. Still, as long as it means something in a given context (in this case, the English language; in our hypothetical case where "nkep" has a game-defined meaning, the game) it's not, by definition, nonsense. -- Geoffrey Spear http://www.geoffreyspear.com/
