The same year as the Manifesto, in 1916, Ball wrote his poem " Karawane ," which is a German poem consisting of nonsensical words.

During a trip to Berlin, her father met a Mr. Sachsenberg, a lecturer on motor sports from the German Aero-Club ( a nonprofit organization dedicated to flying ), and complained to him of his " fly crazy " daughter and the " nonsensical " concept of a female pilot.

A general technique in bilingual punning is homophonic translation, which consists of translating a passage from the source language into a homophonic ( but likely nonsensical ) passage in the target language.

This requires the audience to understand both the surface, nonsensical translation as well as the source text – the former then sounds like the latter spoken in a foreign accent.

" Smith's insistence on complete literalness, plus an effort to translate each original word with the same English word, combined with an odd notion of Hebrew tenses ( often translating the Hebrew imperfect tense with the English future ) results in a translation that is mechanical and often nonsensical.

In Keene's translation: What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realise I have spent whole days before this inkstone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts that have entered my head.

A rough and necessarily nonsensical English translation:

The origin of the name Dada is unclear ; some believe that it is a nonsensical word.

Since the world has become more based in the framework of technology and its advancement, creating a selective internet that allows only some to surf the web freely is nonsensical according to Elliot.

That is, the usual ways physicists calculate the probability that a particle will emit or absorb a graviton give nonsensical answers and the theory loses its predictive power.

It is used primarily to call attention to the fact that computers will unquestioningly process the most nonsensical of input data (" garbage in ") and produce nonsensical output (" garbage out ").

The nonsense syllable PED ( which is the first three letters of the word ‘ pedal ’) turns out to be less nonsensical than a syllable such as KOJ ; the syllables are said to differ in association value.

Foucault was known for his controversial aphorisms, such as " language is oppression ", meaning that language functions in such a way as to render nonsensical, false or silent tendencies that might otherwise threaten or undermine the distributions of power backing a society's conventions-even when such distributions purport to celebrate liberation and expression or value minority groups and perspectives.

Sokal reasoned that, if the presumption of editorial laziness is correct, the nonsensical content of his article would be irrelevant to whether the editors would publish it.

Ayer sought to show that all statements about the divine are nonsensical and any divine-attribute is unprovable.

He wrote: " It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved ... ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical.

In fact, the modern explanation of the uncertainty principle, extending the Copenhagen interpretation first put forward by Bohr and Heisenberg, depends even more centrally on the wave nature of a particle: Just as it is nonsensical to discuss the precise location of a wave on a string, particles do not have perfectly precise positions ; likewise, just as it is nonsensical to discuss the wavelength of a " pulse " wave traveling down a string, particles do not have perfectly precise momenta ( which corresponds to the inverse of wavelength ).

In the context of a nominative – accusative language like English, this promotion is nonsensical because intransitive verbs don't take objects, they take subjects, and so the subject of a transitive verb (" I " in I hug him ) is also the subject of the intransitive passive construction ( I was hugged by him ).

: Tammy ( McCulloch ) is a vapid teen pop star who sings in a breathy monotone ; her songs are bland, repetitive, and somewhat nonsensical.

But it is also quite possible that the rules generate syntactically correct but semantically nonsensical sentences.

" Colorless green ideas sleep furiously " is a sentence composed by Noam Chomsky in his 1957 Syntactic Structures as an example of a sentence that is grammatically correct ( logical form ) but semantically nonsensical.

In addition to such nonsensical uses of language, humor is communicated in scat singing through the use of musical quotation.

" He was known to speak in a high-pitched nonsensical gibberish, that only the family seemed to understand ; in the " My Fair Cousin Itt " episode of the sitcom, Morticia and Gomez, although still failing to realize that Cousin Itt's is utterly incomprehensible to most people ( Morticia went so far as to admit that Itt sometimes speaks " a bit too rapidly for the average listener ," while Gomez had failed to notice even that much ), taught Cousin Itt to speak in an understandable baritone voice for acting purposes to suit a theatrical director's tastes.

His manner of speech, including the impulsive shouting of nonsensical words, has become his trademark which is highly characteristic of Tourette syndrome.

Its main purpose was to offer a wider group of citizens an alternative way of opposition against the authoritarian communist regime by means of a peaceful protest that used absurd and nonsensical elements.

This rock classic consists of Akkerman's guitar chord sequence used as a recurring theme, with quirky and energetic interludes that include alto flute riffs, accordion, guitar, and drum solos-along with Van Leer's whistling, nonsensical vocals, falsetto singing, and yodeling.

Subordinate clauses (= embedded clauses, dependent clauses ) are those that would be awkward or nonsensical if used alone.

Nonsense may also be used abusively, as in Pinter's The Birthday Party when Goldberg and McCann torture Stanley with apparently nonsensical questions and non-sequiturs:

Limericks are probably the best known form of nonsense verse, although they tend nowadays to be used for bawdy or straightforwardly humorous, rather than nonsensical, effect.

To accomplish such a feat as well as they have, they used complicated rhyme schemes that would render a poem nonsensical if any of the key words were changed from the original version.

Staff members felt a more contemporary orientation used in other games would be better, but Davis reasoned that a standard orientation was nonsensical.

One such example is Alan Sokal's " Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity " ( 1996 ), in which Sokal submitted a seemingly real, but nonsensical, paper to the Journal Social Text in order to show that a supposedly serious journal in postmodern theory would accept a meaningless paper if it used sufficiently impenetrable language.

Although many of his first stories were primarily about sleuthing and the processes used in solving seemingly insolvable crimes, during the 1930s, he began to turn increasingly to stories that involved a combination of sensibilities often called " ero guro nansensu ", from the three words " eroticism, grotesquerie, and the nonsensical ".

The term is also used in the weaker sense of any proverb that was modified to have an unexpected, dumb, amusing, or nonsensical ending — even if the changed version is no harder to parse than the original:

* Unwinese – the nonsensical but structured alternative English, also known as gobbledygook but named by its creator Basic Engly Twentyfimode, used by comedian Stanley Unwin

There may not be a logical explanation ; the phrase may have been used just for its nonsensical humor value, like other equivalent English expressions (" it is raining pitchforks ", " hammer handles ", etc.

* In the novel Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub, the word opopanax is used repeatedly and constantly in a nonsensical fashion, as both a verb and an adjective ( e. g. " distant cry of the opopanax ", the opopanax this, the opoponax that, etc.

A nonsensical gobbledegook of Unwin's formulation is used to confuse and distract enemies when required.

C often scrutinizes over the contradictory and nonsensical statements made by A, but is discouraged by B who is clearly used to A and her habits.

" A clip from the episode was used in season eleven's " Behind the Laughter " as an example of the show's increasingly " gimmicky and nonsensical plots.

He thought that to contrive understanding in physical reality by incorporating abstract objects was nonsensical, due to his belief that mental objects are used strictly for convenient social conventions and nothing else.