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From: "Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: Please list all the Ada libraries you know
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Date: 2013-03-06T20:41:36-06:00
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I agree with Adam, below. I've never seen any of those other meanings for 
"sensible", either. Perhaps its a British English vs. American English 
thing? (Those Brits can't even use their own language right! :-).

                          Randy.

"Adam Beneschan" <adam@irvine.com> wrote in message 
news:cb3ebee2-b0fb-4e56-8c4a-a1bf52ce4e25@googlegroups.com...
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