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Mr. Tom Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

When he speaks English, he makes a lot of word salad.

Hi

Could you tell me if the following sentence is correct and natural?
When he speaks English, he makes a lot of word salad.
Does it mean that he jumbles words while speaking?

Thanks,

Tom
  

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Word salad is a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases, specifically. Yes, it does. ____ There is a cite from Oxford American Thesaurus: Confusion is a very broad term, applying to any indiscriminate mixing or mingling that makes it difficult to distinguish individual elements or parts (a confusion of languages).

— Fandorin

  • Word salad is a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases, specifically.
  • Yes, it does.
  • ____ There is a cite from Oxford American Thesaurus: Confusion is a very broad term, applying to any indiscriminate mixing or mingling that makes it difficult to distinguish individual elements or parts (a confusion of languages).
  • The typical teenager's bedroom is usually a jumble of books, papers, clothing, CDs, and soda cans — the word suggests physical disorder and a mixture of dissimilar things.
  • If the disorder exists on a figurative level, it is usually called a hodgepodge (a hodgepodge of ideas, opinions, and quotations, with a few facts thrown in for good measure).
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Word salad is a confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases, specifically.

Yes, it does.
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There is a cite from Oxford American Thesaurus:

Confusion is a very broad term, applying to any indiscriminate mixing or mingling that makes it difficult to distinguish individual elements or parts (a confusion of languages). The typical
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I have always taken word salad to mean the use of a lot of words to express very little meaning. I would not say makes a lot of word salad. More likely I would say something like

His speech was nothing but word salad.
(He used a lot of words, but said nothing significant.)

As far as I know, the expression word salad is not often heard in
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Hi Jim. How about "hodgepodge"? He talks hodgepodge of words.Do you often hear people say that? Emotion: smile
"He talks
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FandorinHow about "hodgepodge"?
Mixed without any comprehensible order. A hodgepodge of words:

colorful invisible the with after concerns never although with musical economics dictionary sounding full after homeward some an seems
Fandorin"He talks gibberish" carries out the same meaning, doesn't it?
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