tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post405471918763116587..comments2024-02-19T07:51:46.118-05:00Comments on Throw Grammar from the Train: That's not (yet) what it meansJanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03173219179480606941noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-27704341817371026372013-06-09T09:17:15.058-04:002013-06-09T09:17:15.058-04:00I bet there are a lot of words beginning with &quo...I bet there are a lot of words beginning with "non" that have obvious meanings, but have never yet been used. If word hasn't been used, it wouldn't get into a dictionary. So why take the fact that a word meaning isn't listed in a dictionary to mean the word doesn't have that meaning?Gregory Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11293280236115306205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-52587373567305374892013-06-07T13:35:56.529-04:002013-06-07T13:35:56.529-04:00sensual, sensuoussensual, sensuousemptyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04513102801380602436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-22841220998564716792013-06-07T08:31:45.991-04:002013-06-07T08:31:45.991-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-91336564557558252012013-06-07T08:13:54.233-04:002013-06-07T08:13:54.233-04:00Think how many adjectives we have with the sens- r...Think how many adjectives we have with the sens- root. Off the top of my head I am coming up with:<br /><br />sensible, sensory, sensate, sensational, sensitive, sententious, sentimental, sentientemptyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04513102801380602436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8811866763970314328.post-38522509785979961522013-06-06T19:11:01.108-04:002013-06-06T19:11:01.108-04:00Particularly when unsensible, unsensibly are just ...Particularly when <i>unsensible, unsensibly</i> are just a keystroke away. True that the OED says the former is obsolete except as a nonce word and the latter obsolete altogether, but they could hardly be anything except the antonyms of <i>sensible, sensibly</i> in the desired sense.John Cowanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11452247999156925669noreply@blogger.com