From: Adam Beneschan <adam@irvine.com>
Subject: Re: Please list all the Ada libraries you know
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 11:34:21 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2013-03-06T11:34:21-08:00 [thread overview]
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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, or in any manner other than what's given in the 4th definition at m-w.com, "having, containing, or indicative of good sense or reason", or the 5th one. The examples they give in the first three definitions sound like a foreign language to me. Frankly, I'm surprised to seem them there at all. Perhaps I'm the outlier here, and other English speakers have heard the word "sensible" used with one of those meanings fairly often. If so, I'd be interested to hear from them. 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. So I'm standing by what I said.
-- Adam
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2013-03-03 16:42 Please list all the Ada libraries you know ferrariv65
2013-03-03 17:13 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-03-03 17:29 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-03-03 19:18 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
2013-03-04 1:02 ` Shark8
2013-03-04 1:23 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-03-04 3:32 ` Shark8
2013-03-04 6:32 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-03-04 20:43 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-03-04 21:09 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-03-04 22:57 ` Shark8
2013-03-04 21:13 ` Ludovic Brenta
2013-03-06 6:15 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-03-06 7:15 ` Simon Wright
2013-03-06 15:09 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2013-03-06 16:03 ` Simon Wright
2013-03-06 17:36 ` Simon Wright
2013-03-06 17:08 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-03-06 19:01 ` Niklas Holsti
2013-03-06 19:34 ` Adam Beneschan [this message]
2013-03-06 19:56 ` [OT] "sensible" in English (was: Please list all the Ada libraries you know) Ludovic Brenta
2013-03-06 20:33 ` [OT] "sensible" in English Niklas Holsti
2013-03-07 7:04 ` Geoff
2013-03-07 7:47 ` Jeffrey Carter
2013-03-07 10:23 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-03-11 16:04 ` [OT] "sensible" in English (was: Please list all the Ada libraries you know) Ada novice
2013-03-06 20:15 ` Please list all the Ada libraries you know Niklas Holsti
2013-03-07 2:41 ` Randy Brukardt
2013-03-07 6:56 ` Geoff
2013-03-07 7:20 ` Simon Wright
2013-03-06 21:01 ` J-P. Rosen
2013-03-06 21:44 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-03-04 8:12 ` Simon Wright
2013-03-04 20:29 ` Shark8
2013-03-06 0:28 ` Jerry
2013-03-07 21:42 ` mockturtle
2013-03-08 9:02 ` Björn Persson
2013-03-07 22:02 ` slos
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