We dearly love the word that will be discussed today. Because it, like a master key, is suitable for solving many situations. For example, they say to you: “Soon there will be a subtropical climate throughout Russia!” And you respond: "Oh, well, some kind of nonsense!". This last noun will be the subject of our analysis today. Surely in the process, the reader will discover facts about which he did not even guess.
Nonsense and gerund
Amazingly, completely different phenomena coexist in the language: obscene ditties and high poetry, the prose of Leo Tolstoy and the writings of Harry Potter fans about the further adventures of the heroes Joan Rowling, the poetry of Blok and someone who just learned to rhyme words and realized that “roses - frosts ”- a very sensible rhyme. And all this is Russian literature.
The language coexists quietly high and low. Therefore, we are not surprised that “bullshit” is a word that owes its birth to the Latin gerundium. Foreign language learners know that gerund is a grammatical concept (a kind of noun derived from a verb) in Latin. The last language was studied by seminary students, of course, along with other subjects. Students, apparently, this concept (gerund) was not given too easily, so they began to call so any nonsense that came in their way. Initially, there was a form of “nonsense”, then the letter “g” disappeared or died out, and “nonsense”, well known to all of us, remained, and this is not the end. The word entered the language in the 19th century, and now this is all that I wanted to say about the origin.
The meaning of the noun and not only it
As we said earlier, in a word you can brush aside any problem, any question, simply by devaluing and calling it nonsense. But few know that, in addition to the object of study, the language also has related words in the assortment. Better to list them:
- nonsense (noun);
- nonsense (verb);
- nonsense (adjective).
It seems that this company lacks only adverbs. How would it sound if it were? Nonsense. A little strange, but to be honest, it is possible that it exists. In any case, it does not appear on the lists, because it is not in the explanatory dictionary, and the rest are! Consider the first meaning of the word "nonsense":
- Nonsense, nonsense, absurdity.
- About something insignificant, insignificant.
Examples of sentences, as well as the meaning of the related verb and adjective
We cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of giving examples of sentences to two meanings:
- Listen, do not let Keshka Lozhechnikov into my office, as he arrives, he immediately begins to poison bearded jokes and generally grind some nonsense about how he will get rich and will quit.
- Yes, indeed, I lost a million dollars in horse racing. What? Sympathize with me? It’s not worth it, all this is trifles, nonsense, because I still have a hundred of such millions in my account.
The verb, formed from a noun, in the dictionary defines: "Do or say nonsense." In this case, the noun is used in its first meaning.
And the following example:
- Do not bullshit! Do you want to tell me that you went to the bird market and brought an alligator instead of a kitten ?! And where do you think he will live? First in the bath, what does it mean first? And then? Okay, it doesn’t concern me, get out as you want.
There will be no special meaning for the adjective, because it is completely analogous to the noun we are analyzing.
Synonyms
Yes, we had a great time, we hope the reader, too. Nonsense is a wonderful noun, it allows you to look at things from the other side. However, it is time to return to a serious channel and talk about word replacements, its analogues. For convenience, we give them a list:
- empty
- stupidity;
- trifle;
- trifle;
- rave;
- game;
- nonsense;
- nonsense;
- Mura
- absurdity.
As the reader can understand, there is no shortage of synonyms for the word “bullshit”. If the reader does not like our options, he can always think a little and offer his own, especially since he already has all the necessary data on hand.
Nonsense - value judgment
Now that the technical part is completed, we can speculate a bit about why we consider this or that phenomenon to be nonsense. After all, sometimes nonsense is only a value judgment. And we will devote some time and place to this aspect of the problem. To begin with, when a person does not understand something, then he considers something nonsense. For example, contemporary art causes many people to feel deeply perplexed. Is there really any deep meaning hidden in modern installations, or is it all just a hoax? The answer, unfortunately, is unknown, because art is an area where different interpretations and interpretations are possible, and the latter often depend on the education and worldview and value position of the person who interprets the novel, picture or film.
A similar ambiguity could be observed in the TV show Cultural Revolution, when the topic was originally asked, which could be interpreted both ways. Then two, usually intellectuals, were called, and they debated.
And if there is a dispute, then there is no single true opinion that could somehow characterize the word "nonsense." Sometimes it indicates objective phenomena of the world, and sometimes it is a value judgment. And the latter is not only possible, but also needs to be called into question.