Word salad
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Word salad is a string of words that vaguely resemble language, and may or may not be grammatically correct, but is utterly meaningless. An example of word salad would be:
- Tramway flogging into my question, are you why is it thirty letters down under jelly, what is it.
Specifically:
- In the context of mental health (positive psychosis, schizophrenia, formal thought disorder), see Word salad (mental health).
- In the context of computer science (e-mail spam filters and filter avoidance, etc.), see Word salad (computer science).
- In linguistics, this is used to illustrate the difference between syntax and meaning. See "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously", which is a famous nonsensical yet grammatically correct sentence written by Noam Chomsky.
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