Achinea is such a symbol of misunderstanding. One person tells something to another, but he does not understand him at all. In such a situation, you can hear the word "nonsense" as a response to the information received. Today we will analyze its meaning and origin, and also understand that not everything is so simple in relation to the object of study.
Resourceful seminarians
The reader probably knows that the majority of schoolchildren and students are not distinguished by diligence and the desire to learn. Of course, those who possess the latter achieve great heights in life, because our reality itself is such that if a person does not study, then he will miss everything and everything. But now is not about that. The relationship between students and knowledge is clear: the former, in general, want to get the latter, but somehow not too much. But sometimes negligent and lazy students are a source of knowledge, for example, linguistic. Now the reader is mentally prepared for the data of the etymological dictionary about the meaning of the word "nonsense", and this is what we achieved.
The word came to us from the Ukrainian language, and its "founders" were seminarians, who apparently were not given any way to Greek, or perhaps history. Because nonsense is a distorted "Athenian" (from Greek). By the way, this origin partly makes the object of study related to “nonsense”, which was formed from “gerund”. The latter also did not obey the seminarians in any way, and they, in their opinion, began to call all nonsense “gerund”, then “g” was lost in time, and the word “nonsense” remained.
It turns out paradoxically: not only knowledge can synthesize knowledge, but ignorance can also synthesize knowledge. We hope that the reader did not consider the last sentence to be complete nonsense. I would not want such a wonderful idea to be considered nonsense.
Value
We devoted time and place to the origin of the word even more than necessary, but we do not regret it, because it draws upon itself the whole meaning of the story. With or without a dictionary, anyone can answer the question about the essence of nonsense, this is understandable. But we, as usual, do not rely on chance and recheck our reasoning, so we prefer not to postpone a smart book. So, the meaning of the word is: "nonsense, nonsense." As you can see, nothing complicated or unusual. The meaning is predictable.
Destination Role
But nonsense is not always stupid. Of course, from the point of view of the language and the dictionary, everything is unambiguous, but this is not the case in live communication and the experience of various situations. When pronouncing the noun in question, a person only indicates his attitude, but he definitely can’t say anything about the subject of the story, and if he could, he would not get off with an emotional verbal splash. Simply put, I would not shout: "This is nonsense!" When a person has arguments, he prefers discussion. Okay, let’s leave it, and so, probably, it’s clear.
Remember the movie Back to the Future? In the last part of the trilogy, on a wave of despair, Doc Brown prophesied (but actually just told) about the upcoming changes: people will jog for health; carts without horses will appear. In other words, shamelessly informed the inhabitants of the Wild West about what they should not know. But the spatio-temporal continuum remained intact, because cowboys considered Doc's stories to be absolute nonsense. From their point of view, Doc carried nonsense. Of course, not every fool is a prophet, but a similar lesson teaches that one should not simply dismiss any story, but what if it is true?