Nonsense

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Nonsense is a form of communication, via speech, writing, or any other formal logic system, that lacks any coherent meaning. In ordinary usage, nonsense is sometimes synonymous with absurdity or the ridiculous. Many poets, novelists and songwriters have used nonsense in their works, often creating entire works using it for reasons ranging from pure comic amusement or satire, to illustrating a point about language or reasoning. In the philosophy of language and philosophy of science, nonsense is distinguished from sense or meaningfulness, and attempts have been made to come up with a coherent a

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Gibberish, also known as jibber-jabber or gobbledygook, is speech that is (or appears to be) nonsense: ranging across speech sounds that are not actual words, pseudowords, language games, and specialized jargon that seems nonsensical to outsiders.

Covfefe is a word, widely presumed to be a typographical error, that Donald Trump used in a tweet during his first term as President of the United States. It quickly became an Internet meme.

sentence coined by Noam Chomsky to describe proper syntax with improper semantics

nonsense phrase that contains the 12 most commonly used letters in the English language in order

broad categorization of literature that balances elements that make sense with some that do not, with the effect of subverting language conventions or logical reasoning

wordless open semantic form of writing