Timeline for Is there a word that means nonsensical question?
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| Oct 1, 2018 at 13:14 | comment | added | InterstellarProbe | @Alex_ander It turns out that the "word" my friend was thinking of was simply a misunderstanding. His literature teacher in high school was discussing nonsense questions in the book Catch-22. She said that the questions were anti-Clevinger. When my friend heard this, he thought she meant that "anticlevinger" was a word that meant nonsense question. | |
| Sep 30, 2018 at 15:29 | vote | accept | InterstellarProbe | ||
| Sep 28, 2018 at 5:52 | comment | added | Alex_ander | Is it possible that your friend meant some word, invented for an occasion? Then it could be something like 'abraquestion'. | |
| Sep 28, 2018 at 0:45 | comment | added | Mitch | @GEdgar A brick is not currently considered a precious metal | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 23:49 | answer | added | Lawrence | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 21:15 | comment | added | tmgr | Is a word still a word if no one hears it? | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 21:05 | comment | added | Dr. Shmuel | are you looking for a term that is common but you just can’t put your finger on it, because I’ve never heard of koan | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 20:44 | answer | added | tmgr | timeline score: 1 | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 16:41 | history | edited | InterstellarProbe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 15:44 | comment | added | InterstellarProbe | I agree. My friend is convinced that there is a single word that specifies that a nonsensical sentence is a question, not another type of sentence. Based on your response, I suspect you do not know of one, either. While this post is not proof that no such word exists, it is evidence. As time goes on, if no word is found (my searches turned up nothing but synonyms of nonsense), I will assume that my friend is incorrect. On the other hand, it would be funny if he were right, so as unconvinced as I am, I am rooting for an answer in his favor. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 15:20 | comment | added | Mitch | Whether a question or a declaration, 'nonsense' itself works. A nonsensical statement is nonsense; a nonsensical question is nonsense. Or any synonym for nonsense. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 15:16 | comment | added | InterstellarProbe | I updated the question to reflect this. | |
| Sep 27, 2018 at 15:15 | history | edited | InterstellarProbe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 14:37 | comment | added | Nigel Touch | Bear in mind that "Which weighs more, a pound of bricks or a pound of feathers?" is sensible – it has an answer, "Neither, they weigh the same" – but is more accurately a trick question. | |
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| Sep 27, 2018 at 12:42 | history | asked | InterstellarProbe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |