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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Please list all the Ada libraries you know
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2013 22:15:40 +0200
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On 13-03-06 21:34 , Adam Beneschan wrote:
> On Wednesday, March 6, 2013 11:01:24 AM UTC-8, Niklas Holsti wrote:
> 
>> So "sensible" has multiple meanings.
> 
> You may be technically correct.  My usual source, m-w.com, also lists
> a number of similar meanings.  But I have to say that, in 52 years of
> speaking and reading (American) English, I have *never* seen or heard
> the word "sensible" used in that manner,

My experience is a bit shorter - perhaps 45 years or so - but it seems I
have heard it so used, since I reacted to your statement before I
checked the dictionaries. But I agree that this meaning is unusual.

I know, for sure, that I have seen "insensible" used to mean
"unconscious", "unreactive", when describing a person's state of awareness.

> But based on my own
> experience, if you use the word "sensible" like that, other people
> will not understand what you're talking about.  And being technically
> correct counts for little if you're not understood.

I agree that one should use words in their common meaning, and in that
sense I agree with your advice that using "noticeable" or "appreciable"
is better that using the uncommon meaning of "sensible".

> So I'm standing by what I said.

I was only reacting to your absolute assertion that "sensible" cannot
mean what J-P used it to mean.

-- 
Niklas Holsti
Tidorum Ltd
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