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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (30843)	12/29/2008 5:06:23 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

but, why? What for? (It's just nonsense when used without any contextual meaning, any given definition.) In the context it was used, I don't see it as "just nonsense". He used a nonsense word, to make a point, that it doesn't matter what word you use in this case. I've used a similar rhetorical device before, to express the idea that the technical definition of the word isn't important in the current conversation. When someone debates what to call something, and I respond with something like "you can call it 'x' if you want, it doesn't matter what you call it, its still y" (with x being either a nonsense word, or a real word that's not relevant and perhaps rather silly, and y being a description of the aspect or point about the thing in question that I see as important and relevant) Its not something I've done frequently, but a silly word, makes the point, in a way a technically correct word would not.