Nonsense


 
 
Nonsense

:If you are looking for "nonsense" as used in Wikipedia, see .

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Nonsense is an utterance or written text in what appears to be a human language or other symbolic system, that does not in fact carry any identifiable meaning.

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While Emily Dickinson wrote that:

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:Much madness is divinest Sense

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::To the discerning Eye. . .

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The problem lies in the discernment. Distinguishing meaningful utterances from nonsense is not a trivial task. Confronted with a lengthy text in an unknown script, how does one determine whether those characters in fact contained a meaningful text, or were simply set using the equivalent of printer's pi or a lorem ipsum style text?


 

Script: Script may mean:...

Lorem ipsum: In publishing and graphic design, lorem ipsum (or simply lipsum) is standard placeholder text used to demonstrate the graphic elements of a document or visual presentation, such as font, typography, and layout. Lipsum also serves as placeholder text in mock-ups of visual design projects before the a...


Nonsense related Images and Photos (experimental)

La Risa Del Pueblo (The Laughter of the The People - Away with Your Nonsense)  1939
La Risa Del Pueblo (The Laughter of the The People - Away with Your Nonsense) 1939

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Introduction
Distinguishing sense from nonsense
Teaching machines to talk nonsense
Literary nonsense
The philosophy of nonsense
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