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  2. Nonsense - Wikipedia

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    In this sense, "nonsense" does not refer to meaningless gibberish, but rather to the lack of sense in the context of sense and reference. In this context, logical tautologies, and purely mathematical propositions may be regarded as "nonsense". For example, "1+1=2" is a nonsensical proposition. [5]

  3. Literary nonsense - Wikipedia

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    Literary nonsense, as recognized since the nineteenth century, comes from a combination of two broad artistic sources. The first and older source is the oral folk tradition, including games, songs, dramas, and rhymes, such as the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle". [3]

  4. Nonsense verse - Wikipedia

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    Nonsense verse is a form of nonsense literature usually employing strong prosodic elements like rhythm and rhyme. It is often whimsical and humorous in tone and ...

  5. Non-lexical vocables in music - Wikipedia

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    Solfège, or solfa, is a technique for teaching sight-singing, in which each note is sung to a special syllable (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti).; Canntaireachd is an ancient Scottish practice of noting music with a combination of definite syllables for ease of recollection and transmission.

  6. Nonce word - Wikipedia

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    pseudoword: a nonsense word that still follows the phonotactics of a particular language and is therefore pronounceable, feeling to native speakers like a possible word (for example, in English, blurk is a pseudoword, but bldzkg is a nonword); thus, pseudowords follow a language's phonetic rules but have no meaning [10]

  7. Old-School Slang Words That Really Deserve a Comeback

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    Example: "Professional hand models live lives of lavish luxury (Oooh! That's fun!) all due to their beautiful, shapely and elegantly manicured meathooks." That's fun!) all due to their beautiful ...

  8. Pseudoword - Wikipedia

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    A logatome or nonsense syllable is a short pseudoword consisting most of the time of just one syllable which has no meaning of its own. Examples of English logatomes are the nonsense words snarp or bluck. Like other pseudowords, logatomes obey all the phonotactic rules of a specific language. Logatomes are used in particular in acoustic ...

  9. Two-tier policing claims are 'nonsense', MPs told

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    A police chief has branded claims of two-tier policing "nonsense" as he insisted his officers had been "entirely fair" in the way they responded to the summer riots. ... He cited examples of ...