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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 12:05 PM
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Can this salad be properly dressed? Will we all be eatin_ it toni_ht?
Word salad
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Word salad is a string of words that vaguely resembles language, and may or may not be grammatically correct, but is utterly meaningless. Examples of word salad include:

Wonder, why now? Like, there's this clever girl, and this clown right. They're throwing up for a circus, and when the point is dead. They got no place to go except between the business, and somewhere else called money.

Specifically:

* In the context of mental health (positive psychosis, schizophrenia, formal thought disorder), see Schizophasia -- although today word salad is only rarely considered a symptom of schizophrenia, and when it does appear in a patient, it is usually during the regressed period of the illness.
* In the context of clinical neuropsychology, see Receptive aphasia. Unlike schizophasia, it is a symptom of neurological damage of brain, rather than schizophrenia.
* 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad

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Since the above is a quote from the Wiki thin_ie, I left the Gs in place.

(In the interest of fairness and basic human decency, all Gs have been removed from this and all my other posts. They are being donated to the Help Sarah Speak Better Fund. This will continue until the debate tonight. Please join me and _ive _enerously to a worthy cause.)
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Lance_Boyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 12:08 PM
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1. will you please buy a "g" key for your keyboard? n/t

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Stinky The Clown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 12:11 PM
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3. I have a fully functionin_ G on my keyboard
Did you not read the final paragraph of the OP? That 'splains it all. It is also repeated here, below.

(In the interest of fairness and basic human decency, all Gs have been removed from this and all my other posts. They are being donated to the Help Sarah Speak Better Fund. This will continue until the debate tonight. Please join me and _ive _enerously to a worthy cause.)
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 12:10 PM
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2. Good catch but you forgot the flight of ideas
she also exhibits, the stringing together of unrelated phrases as her brain races ahead of her mouth and she just can't get the words out fast enough.

Personally, I think hypomania is possible. Her personality profile and life history both support it. It explains a lot.

Check it out and make up your own mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypomania
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LunaSea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-02-08 12:20 PM
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4. Palin is
Edited on Thu Oct-02-08 12:28 PM by LunaSea
The Word Salad Shooter

I'm picking up six pints of Ranch dressing for the evenings festivities.

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