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by sporkologist 2535 days ago
> nonsensical

What would you consider nonsensical jargon? Jargon is jargon because it makes sense to those in that particular profession (medicine in this instance) but not to those outside it. Jargon that doesn't make sense to those who are using it is just fiddle-faddle.

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> pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

This is nonsensical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilico...

It is a type of silicosis, and has been around since 1935.

Did you even read that link?

> artificial long word

> coined by the president of the National Puzzlers' League as a synonym for the disease known as silicosis

Nonsensical.