NONSENSE  廢話

CONFUSED SPEECH which LACKS MEANING.
Hypernym
  • SPEAKACT so as to USE WORDS FOR SHOWING MEANING.*Speech by speaker X, directed towards audience Y, in order to communicate message Z.
    • ACTMOVE OR NOT MOVE CONFORMING to one's SELF:own DECIDE:decision.
      • MOVECHANGE PLACE OR SITUATION.
        • CHANGEEVENT involving two MOMENTS t1 and t2, such that a THING at the MOMENT t1 is DIFFERENT FROM that THING at the MOMENT t2....
See also
  • FARTISSUE GAS from one's STOMACH THROUGH the ANUS.
    Old Chinese Criteria
    The concept of nonsense is not prominent in ancient Chinese discourse.

    Modern Chinese Criteria
    胡說 is the current modern Chinese verb for talking nonsense.

    放屁 (informal) is a highly colloquial word referring to talking nonsense.

    胡扯 is a highly colloquial modern Chinese word for nonsense.

    嚼舌 focusses in a colloquial way on inarticulateness as the cause for the production of nonsense.

    瞎扯 is colloquial and intensitive.

    瞎說 is a more literary common word for talking nonsense or nominally nonsense.

    亂說 focusses on the intellectually chaotic nature of nonsense.

    亂道 (lit) refers to confused discourse in a rather formal way.

    瞎謅 (lit, rare) refers to un-thought-through wild talk in a dignified way.

    嚼蛆 jiáoqū refers to talking nonsense.

    咧咧 (coll) refers to meaningless blabbering.

    亂彈琴 "strum the lute chaotically" is a figurative literary way of referring to talking nonsense.

    胡言亂語 (prov) refers in a hyperbolic literary way to the talking of nonsense.

    胡說八道 (prov) is a highly colloquial idiomatic way of referring to the talking of nonsense.

    妄言妄語 (prov) is a formal and still way of referring to the talking of nonsense.

    說夢話 "talk dream talk" is a figurative way of referring to the talking of nonsense.

    鬼話連篇 (prov) focusses on the lengthiness of the onsense.

    囈語連天 (prov, obs) refers in a recondite way to the talking of nonsense.

    言不及義 (prov) focusses on the failure of nonsense to articulate even wrong meaning.

    信口開河 (prov) focusses on the irresponsibility of talk and is marginal in the group.

    信口雌黃 (prov) focusses on the irresponsibility of talk and is marginal in the group.

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    • Vocabulaire européen des philosophies. Dictionnaire des intraduisibles ( CASSIN 2004) p. 859

    • Historisches Woerterbuch der Philosophie ( RITTER 1971-2007) p. 11.270

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    Words

    邪哆  xié chǐ OC: sɢlja khljalʔ MC: zɣɛ tɕhiɛ 1 Attribution

      Syntactic words
    • NPabtextgibberish; nonsense; blah-blah; heterodoxy
      huà OC: ɡroods MC: ɦɣɛi 0 Attributions
      Syntactic words
    • nabactempty talk
    • vtoNtalk nonsense about

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