Word salad
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Comment from Mario PIERRE
I liked the fact that the poem conforms to the 5-5-5 requirements. The last two verses magistrally demonstrate the agony of searching for a word that cannot be remembered. The only objective question that I have is: why fantastically?
Also, in your notes, did you mean "horror"? because, although the word horow exists, it doesn't fit here...
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reply by the author on 06-May-2023
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I liked the fact that the poem conforms to the 5-5-5 requirements. The last two verses magistrally demonstrate the agony of searching for a word that cannot be remembered. The only objective question that I have is: why fantastically?
Also, in your notes, did you mean "horror"? because, although the word horow exists, it doesn't fit here...
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Comment Written 06-May-2023
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Thank you fixed the typo
Comment from Colleen The Garbanzo Bean
What a fun twist on a 5/5/5. I wonder how many different poems that make sense could be written in this form (that is my math teacher brain at work).
I have definitely had experiences trying to find a specific word and feeling extremely fearful! I think the fact that these multisyllabic words are used to describe a feeling of not finding the right word adds a lot of humor. Love it!
reply by the author on 06-May-2023
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What a fun twist on a 5/5/5. I wonder how many different poems that make sense could be written in this form (that is my math teacher brain at work).
I have definitely had experiences trying to find a specific word and feeling extremely fearful! I think the fact that these multisyllabic words are used to describe a feeling of not finding the right word adds a lot of humor. Love it!
Comment Written 05-May-2023
reply by the author on 06-May-2023
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Colleen thank you and my sincere thank you for your years as an educator. We have one grandson whom is a junior in college in physics who will ly become an educator in mathematics.
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That is great! I think he will really enjoy his career, and he is entering in a time when we really need him!
Thank you!
Comment from jake cosmos aller
nicely done. Love it. great words to use and abuse. I like how you wrote it as if it were a word salad. I have been thinking about word salads for a while wonder where the phrase came from? I will look it up. here's what i found out
For the album by Fischer-Z, see Word Salad (album).
Look up word salad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A word salad, or schizophasia, is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The term schizophasia is used in particular to describe the confused language that may be evident in schizophrenia.[2] The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but are semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them. The term is often used in psychiatry as well as in theoretical linguistics to describe a type of grammatical acceptability judgement by native speakers, and in computer programming to describe textual randomization.
Psychiatry
Word salad may describe a symptom of neurological or psychiatric conditions in which a person attempts to communicate an idea, but words and phrases that may appear to be random and unrelated come out in an incoherent sequence instead. Often, the person is unaware that he or she did not make sense. It appears in people with dementia and schizophrenia,[3] as well as after anoxic brain injury. In schizophrenia it is also referred to as schizophasia.[2] Clang associations are especially characteristic of mania, as seen in bipolar disorder, as a somewhat more severe variation of flight of ideas. In extreme mania, the patient's speech may become incoherent, with associations markedly loosened, thus presenting as a veritable word salad.
It may be present as:
Clanging, a speech pattern that follows rhyming and other sound associations rather than meaning
Graphorrhea, a written version of word salad that is more rarely seen than logorrhea in people with schizophrenia.[4]
Logorrhea, a mental condition characterized by excessive talking (incoherent and compulsive)
Receptive aphasia,[5] fluent in speech but without making sense, often a result of a stroke or other brain injury
Deliberate use
Narcissistic word salad is a type of purposefully confusing speech, using circular reasoning, logical fallacies and other rhetorical devices to disorient and manipulate a person or group. Some antisocial and narcissistic people use it in gaslighting their targets.[6]
Computing
Word salad can be generated by a computer program for entertainment purposes by inserting randomly chosen words of the same type (nouns, adjectives, etc.) into template sentences with missing words, a game similar to Mad Libs. The video game company Maxis, in their seminal SimCity 2000, used this technique to create an in-game "newspaper" for entertainment; the columns were composed by taking a vague story-structure, and using randomization, inserted various nouns, adjectives, and verbs to generate seemingly unique stories.
Another way of generating meaningless text is mojibake, also called Buchstabensalat ("letter salad") in German, in which an assortment of seemingly random text is generated through character encoding incompatibility in which characters in one set are replaced by those of another. The effect is more effective in languages where each character represents a word, such as Chinese.
More serious attempts to automatically produce nonsense stem from Claude Shannon's seminal paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication from 1948[7] in which progressively more convincing nonsense is generated first by choosing letters and spaces randomly, then according to the frequency with which each character appears in some sample of text, then respecting the likelihood that the chosen letter appears after the preceding one or two in the sample text, and then applying similar techniques to whole words. Its most convincing nonsense is generated by second-order word approximation, in which words are chosen by a random function weighted to the likelihood that each word follows the preceding one in normal text:
The Head And In Frontal Attack On An English Writer That The Character Of This Point Is Therefore Another Method For The Letters That The Time Of Who Ever Told The Problem For An Unexpected.
Markov chains can be used to generate random but somewhat human-looking sentences. This is used in some chat-bots, especially on IRC networks.
Nonsensical phrasing can also be generated for more malicious reasons, such as the Bayesian poisoning used to counter Bayesian spam filters by using a string of words which have a high probability of being collocated in English, but with no concern for whether the sentence makes sense grammatically or logically.
See also
Similar textual productions or phenomena
Dissociated press, a computer program that applies a Markov chain to generate word salad
Gibberish, nonsensical language
Lorem ipsum, placeholder text that does not have any meaning
Nonsense verse, verse which is nonsensical
Paragrammatism, inability to produce or create grammatically correct sentences
Thought disorder, disorder of thought
Other
Glossolalia, phenomenon in which people speak in languages which are unfamiliar to them
Mad Libs, a phrasal template word game that sometimes results in word salad
Scat singing, vocal improvisation with nonsensical word
not me mentioned is the use of the term word salad to refer to the ramblings of politicians like Hershel Walker, Donald Trump and Marjo Taylor Greene
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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nicely done. Love it. great words to use and abuse. I like how you wrote it as if it were a word salad. I have been thinking about word salads for a while wonder where the phrase came from? I will look it up. here's what i found out
For the album by Fischer-Z, see Word Salad (album).
Look up word salad in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A word salad, or schizophasia, is a "confused or unintelligible mixture of seemingly random words and phrases",[1] most often used to describe a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The term schizophasia is used in particular to describe the confused language that may be evident in schizophrenia.[2] The words may or may not be grammatically correct, but are semantically confused to the point that the listener cannot extract any meaning from them. The term is often used in psychiatry as well as in theoretical linguistics to describe a type of grammatical acceptability judgement by native speakers, and in computer programming to describe textual randomization.
Psychiatry
Word salad may describe a symptom of neurological or psychiatric conditions in which a person attempts to communicate an idea, but words and phrases that may appear to be random and unrelated come out in an incoherent sequence instead. Often, the person is unaware that he or she did not make sense. It appears in people with dementia and schizophrenia,[3] as well as after anoxic brain injury. In schizophrenia it is also referred to as schizophasia.[2] Clang associations are especially characteristic of mania, as seen in bipolar disorder, as a somewhat more severe variation of flight of ideas. In extreme mania, the patient's speech may become incoherent, with associations markedly loosened, thus presenting as a veritable word salad.
It may be present as:
Clanging, a speech pattern that follows rhyming and other sound associations rather than meaning
Graphorrhea, a written version of word salad that is more rarely seen than logorrhea in people with schizophrenia.[4]
Logorrhea, a mental condition characterized by excessive talking (incoherent and compulsive)
Receptive aphasia,[5] fluent in speech but without making sense, often a result of a stroke or other brain injury
Deliberate use
Narcissistic word salad is a type of purposefully confusing speech, using circular reasoning, logical fallacies and other rhetorical devices to disorient and manipulate a person or group. Some antisocial and narcissistic people use it in gaslighting their targets.[6]
Computing
Word salad can be generated by a computer program for entertainment purposes by inserting randomly chosen words of the same type (nouns, adjectives, etc.) into template sentences with missing words, a game similar to Mad Libs. The video game company Maxis, in their seminal SimCity 2000, used this technique to create an in-game "newspaper" for entertainment; the columns were composed by taking a vague story-structure, and using randomization, inserted various nouns, adjectives, and verbs to generate seemingly unique stories.
Another way of generating meaningless text is mojibake, also called Buchstabensalat ("letter salad") in German, in which an assortment of seemingly random text is generated through character encoding incompatibility in which characters in one set are replaced by those of another. The effect is more effective in languages where each character represents a word, such as Chinese.
More serious attempts to automatically produce nonsense stem from Claude Shannon's seminal paper A Mathematical Theory of Communication from 1948[7] in which progressively more convincing nonsense is generated first by choosing letters and spaces randomly, then according to the frequency with which each character appears in some sample of text, then respecting the likelihood that the chosen letter appears after the preceding one or two in the sample text, and then applying similar techniques to whole words. Its most convincing nonsense is generated by second-order word approximation, in which words are chosen by a random function weighted to the likelihood that each word follows the preceding one in normal text:
The Head And In Frontal Attack On An English Writer That The Character Of This Point Is Therefore Another Method For The Letters That The Time Of Who Ever Told The Problem For An Unexpected.
Markov chains can be used to generate random but somewhat human-looking sentences. This is used in some chat-bots, especially on IRC networks.
Nonsensical phrasing can also be generated for more malicious reasons, such as the Bayesian poisoning used to counter Bayesian spam filters by using a string of words which have a high probability of being collocated in English, but with no concern for whether the sentence makes sense grammatically or logically.
See also
Similar textual productions or phenomena
Dissociated press, a computer program that applies a Markov chain to generate word salad
Gibberish, nonsensical language
Lorem ipsum, placeholder text that does not have any meaning
Nonsense verse, verse which is nonsensical
Paragrammatism, inability to produce or create grammatically correct sentences
Thought disorder, disorder of thought
Other
Glossolalia, phenomenon in which people speak in languages which are unfamiliar to them
Mad Libs, a phrasal template word game that sometimes results in word salad
Scat singing, vocal improvisation with nonsensical word
not me mentioned is the use of the term word salad to refer to the ramblings of politicians like Hershel Walker, Donald Trump and Marjo Taylor Greene
Comment Written 05-May-2023
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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Ergo the gr@phic with question marks. Great information and I agree thank you my friend,
Comment from Julie Lau
OMG, those words are real! I tend to just make them up. Well done to use three 5-syllable words to complete your entry; that is a really unique treatment. You deserve to well in the contest. :-)
reply by the author on 06-May-2023
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OMG, those words are real! I tend to just make them up. Well done to use three 5-syllable words to complete your entry; that is a really unique treatment. You deserve to well in the contest. :-)
Comment Written 05-May-2023
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Julie thank you!
Comment from Wendy G
Your vocabulary must be much better than mine. A clever and witty entry for the contest. Also well presented. Sending best wishes for your entry.
Wendy
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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Your vocabulary must be much better than mine. A clever and witty entry for the contest. Also well presented. Sending best wishes for your entry.
Wendy
Comment Written 05-May-2023
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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Thank you Wendy, however, I am certain your vocabulary is quite at par with mine.
Comment from Charles W. Johnson
Well there's a couple words that I didn't know existed and am quite certain that I won't find occasion to use unless I get creative as you did. I am confident that your poem will have the fewest number of words in this contest but require the most work by the reader to understand. Good luck!
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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Well there's a couple words that I didn't know existed and am quite certain that I won't find occasion to use unless I get creative as you did. I am confident that your poem will have the fewest number of words in this contest but require the most work by the reader to understand. Good luck!
Comment Written 05-May-2023
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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Charles thank you, I find these little three lines poems often rather unimaginative, so I pushed the envelope, one might say.
Comment from dragonpoet
Hi,
Your title is apt for the words you choses. I am glad you gave the definitions of the words in line 2 and 3 or I would have thought they were made up words like those in the poem 'Jabberwocky'.
Keep writing and stay healthy
Good luck in the contest.
Joan
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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Hi,
Your title is apt for the words you choses. I am glad you gave the definitions of the words in line 2 and 3 or I would have thought they were made up words like those in the poem 'Jabberwocky'.
Keep writing and stay healthy
Good luck in the contest.
Joan
Comment Written 05-May-2023
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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Joan, thanks!
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You?re welcome m.
Joan
Comment from Gypsy Blue Rose
Excellent entry for the 5-5-5 writing prompt contest. Unique idea, thank you for the author notes, I didn't know those words.
I like the presentation too. Concrete images easy to visualize.
Good syllables count and connection between lines.
Good luck in the contest.
Gypsy
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason" -- Novalis
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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Excellent entry for the 5-5-5 writing prompt contest. Unique idea, thank you for the author notes, I didn't know those words.
I like the presentation too. Concrete images easy to visualize.
Good syllables count and connection between lines.
Good luck in the contest.
Gypsy
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason" -- Novalis
Comment Written 05-May-2023
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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Gypsy, thanks!
Comment from Jannypan (Jan)
I enjoyed your fun approach to the contest,
Mystery Author. So many usually fall into the
predicted one sentence divided into three lines
with the correct syllable count. Your word choices
gave readers much t think about, the syllable count
was correct per line, and the image was appropriate.
Thanks for sharing and best wishes in the contest, Jan
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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I enjoyed your fun approach to the contest,
Mystery Author. So many usually fall into the
predicted one sentence divided into three lines
with the correct syllable count. Your word choices
gave readers much t think about, the syllable count
was correct per line, and the image was appropriate.
Thanks for sharing and best wishes in the contest, Jan
Comment Written 05-May-2023
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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Thank you for the validation and good wishes.
Comment from Jim Wile
I loved this! Such interesting words you've chosen. I love learning new words for things, and I've never heard of these last two. My only fear about them is that I will most certainly feel loganamnosis and experience horripilation in trying to remember them to use them again! Jim
reply by the author on 05-May-2023
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I loved this! Such interesting words you've chosen. I love learning new words for things, and I've never heard of these last two. My only fear about them is that I will most certainly feel loganamnosis and experience horripilation in trying to remember them to use them again! Jim
Comment Written 05-May-2023
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Thank you, Jim. Hope all is great in your world, Jim