Not nonsense, after all

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Mon Jan 22 23:08:03 UTC 2007


For the first time, I've came across a sentence something like:

It would _not_ be _sensical_ for Apple to do X instead of Y.

Google finds "nonsensical," "non-sensical," "not (...) sensical," and
positive "sensical," e.g. "... the sensical thing to do."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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