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  Creative Aerobics: WORD SALAD
WORD SALAD is one of the most useful all-purpose techniques in the Creative Aerobics Toolbox.
Ask the group to identify core ideas and themes--e.g., frequently mentioned ideas or words or words that capture the "essence" of the concept.
By repeating this exercise several times using the most unusual or interesting words produced each time, you lead the thinking further away from the original keyword/concept but in a way that follows a "logic track." The goal is to arrive at an entirely new and interesting place in your thinking.
www.nutscape.com /creativity/wordsalad.htm   (512 words)

  
  Word salad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Word salad is a mixture of seemingly meaningful words that together signify nothing; the phrase derives from the fact that many salads are composed of tossed ingredients and therefore have small-scale structure but no large-scale organization.
When applied to a physical theory, "word salad" it is a derogatory description that labels the theory as senseless or utterly devoid of meaning.
In the context of computer science and linguistics, explicitly constructed word salad is a tool for demonstrating the difference between random utterance and coherent expression of thought.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Word_salad   (787 words)

  
 Word salad (mental health) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the mental health field, word salad (originally from the German Wortsalat) is used to describe the symptom of confused, and often repetitious, language that is symptomatic of various mental illnesses.
In this context, it is considered to be a symptom of a formal thought disorder.
The character Homsar in the animated cartoon series Homestar Runner is known for speaking in word salads, as are members of the Xaositect faction of the Planescape setting of the Dungeons and Dragons game, Ed from the animated Cartoon Network series Ed Edd and Eddy, and Happy Noodle Boy from Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Word_salad_(mental_health)   (229 words)

  
 Purity Foods, Inc.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Salads were first eaten during the time of the Roman Empire in the form of herbs and other greens.
Wilted Spinach Salad with Chili Flakes uses fresh greens as its base, Fresh Green Bean Bulgur Salad includes vegetables, Sweet and Sour Spelt Salad boasts two types of fruit, and Chef's Salad with Spelt Croutons is made robust by the addition of cheese and chicken.
Of course, each of these salads is enhanced by spelt, whether in the form of spelt bread, spelt pasta, spelt sprouts, spelt bulgur, spelt kernels, or spelt flakes.
www.purityfoods.com /scookexcerpt.html   (667 words)

  
 The Digital Falcon: Word Salad Show (pt 3)
Word salad: a jumble of words and phrases that lacks coherence and meaning.
The Word Salad Show is produced thanks to the unholy union of Mother Hive Brain, the ZZ, and all of their subsidiaries.
It is an ongoing fusion of live musics, spoken word, and discussion groups held in various studios, homes, and clubs across the country.
www.digital-falcon.com /2005/01/word-salad-show-pt-3.shtml   (137 words)

  
 Language Log: Have some word salad with that word soup
Word salad is the technical term for the result of randomly tossing words into a sentence, e.g.
In general, this kind of trick is easy to do, since every word can be used to name itself and is therefore a noun, and because just about any noun can be `verbified' (i.e.
Another category we could call word minestrone, for obvious reasons: `That that that is is that that is not is not that that that is not is not that that is is is not that so.'
itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/000262.html   (330 words)

  
 Susanna's California Cuisine Restaurant in Rosarito, Baja
The word Appetizer is a derivative of the Latin word 'Appete', which means 'to desire or to long for'; an appetizer is then, something to encourages desire, in this case, for the meal that will follow.
The word Pasta is derived from the Italian word of the same spelling, which means "dough, pastry cake, paste", originally meaning "a salted mess of food" from the neutral plural of 'Pastos'.
The word 'Wine' is thought to be derived from the Georgian word 'ghvino', an ancient term that comes from the small Caspian Sea country, the first modern nation to make the fermented grape beverage.
www.susannasinrosarito.com /menu.htm   (216 words)

  
 WSJ.com - Fruitcake Debutantes Defined by O, And Other Spam Tricks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
These "word salad" e-mails, as they're broadly referred to among spam watchers, are the latest in the fast-changing arsenal of trickery that includes tactics such as using numbers and symbols to spell words like Viagra as v1@gra.
Words that weren't common to previous generations of spam, such as "obstreperous" and "woebegone," are now appearing in messages.
Word salads are particularly good at getting through the type of antispam software that uses just pure content-filters, cautions Tim Smithson, a solution marketing manager at Network Associates Inc., which makes security software.
www.turntide.com /images/pdfs/WSJ_Church.htm   (1116 words)

  
 Boston Legal - Boston Legal: Word Salad Day / Season 2, Episode 21 - starring James Spader, Mark Valley, William ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
A story of emptying your bucket, the family cooperative, Dopamine - the master molecule, passion or addiction, Pillow pants, value your melancholy — and needing friendship.
It's a rough day in court for Alan Shore when he experiences an inexplicable case of "word salad" - a horrifying condition that causes him to speak unintelligible gibberish.
He is perhaps more recognizable from his many recurring roles on better-known series such as Melrose Place, LA Law, and Friends.
www.boston-legal.org /21-wordsaladday/ep21-wordsaladday.shtml   (1129 words)

  
 Summertime is for Salads
To Shakespeare, salad was an adjective to describe a time of youthful inexperience or indiscretion: “…my salad days when I was green in judgement.” To Escoffier, salads were either simple or compound.
In some parts of America, a salad is a bowl of iceberg lettuce topped with a dressing from a bottle — maybe there’s a tomato added for color.
In selecting the recipes to include under the category of salads, I made the arbitrary decision to only include recipes where the original author started the title with the word “salade.” I also arbitrarily decided to exclude fruit and other salads generally eaten for dessert.
www.hertzmann.com /articles/2000/salads   (361 words)

  
 The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Literature
Words like ‘Aphonia’ and ‘Apnea’ sound almost similar but fell apart in the conceptualisation of disability terms.
‘Salad’ is the mouth-watering word but how many of us have ever heard of "word salad".
In terms of disability, ‘word salad’ is a mixture of words and phrases that lack comprehensive meaning or logical coherence.
www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20020428/spectrum/book4.htm   (655 words)

  
 Willamette Galley Newsletter November 2002
Word salad: (n.) An informal term for incoherent speech and sometimes writing made up of real and concocted words, lacking overall sense, and often occurring in schizophrenia.
The word intimates a connotation of this period as being "as sweet as honey;" sweet has been used as a word for pleasurable in English for over a thousand years.
The word first appeared in the 16th century; the "vacation" sense arose by the 18th century.
www.stcwvc.org /galley/0211/word_salad.htm   (423 words)

  
 Shelly Sinton, Salads in the Fitness Kitchen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
If the word "salad" congers up boring visions of transparent iceberg lettuce meekly adorned with a lone cherry tomato and glopped with a heave of Thousand Island dressing or, for the ascetic, left plain, then prepare for a change of salad scenery.
Salads can be a colorful, delicious, and appetite-whetting side dish or, when fortified with lean protein, a main meal dietary salvation.
Green salads, fruit salads, seafood salads, chicken salads, pasta salads, salads of grains, and infinite other combinations can be made with not a hint of iceberg lettuce.
www.dolfzine.com /page607.htm   (2007 words)

  
 The History of Salad ,The Kitchen Project - "Food History"
The words sauce and salsa, borrowed into English from French and Spanish, respectively, both come ultimately from the Latin word salsus, meaning “salted.” Another derivative of this word was the Late Latin adjective salscius, “prepared by salting,” which eventually gave us the word sausage.
Once upon a time, there was a Greek word, gala, meaning "milk." Gala (originally from the Indo-European glakt), had the genitive form of galaktos, which spawned the Late Latin words lac and galaxias.
Chances are your salad will have veggies in it of the genus lactuca, or lettuce, derived from the Latin lac because of the milky white juice found in many types of lettuce.
www.kitchenproject.com /history/Salad.htm   (462 words)

  
 Crunchy, cool and refreshing - Deccan Herald   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The popularity of salads is evident from the new salad bars that are coming up in all the metros.
For the uninitiated, the word ‘salad’ comes from the French word ‘Salade’ and the Latin word ‘Salata’ which means ‘salty’.
A salad, however, is incomplete without the dressing which adds zest and tang to it, making it delicious.
www.deccanherald.com /deccanherald/jun042004/liv10.asp   (777 words)

  
 The Tribune - Magazine section - Windows - Roots
HE word hazard comes from the Arabic al zahr that means ‘the dice’ and was used by Western Europeans to refer to the various games played with dice that they learned while in the Holy Land during the crusades.
The word gradually took on the sinister shades of peril, as, right from the outset, games of dice are associated with gambling and cheating.
By and by, these greens came to be used in their raw form, leading to the use of more raw ingredients sprinkled with salt, vinegar and lemon juice, giving the English salad in its present form.
www.tribuneindia.com /2004/20040306/windows/roots.htm   (580 words)

  
 Armadillo Pie - Salads & Dressings
The Mexican word, ensalada, far more accurately describes what a salad actually is than does the English word, salad.
Since most salads are served cold, they can be extended to become a great warm weather meal.
Even though the Kraft Company is well established in Mexico and produces a number of items under their trademark, bottled salad dressings seem to be one of the things which ate hard to find.
www.jimforeman.com /Books/Cookbook/salads.htm   (542 words)

  
 Category:Salad recipes - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks
A salad is a food item generally served either prior to or after the main dish as a separate course, as a main course in itself, or as a sidedish accompanying the main dish.
The word “salad” comes from the French salade of the same meaning, from the Latin salata, “salty.”
A salad is most often composed of a mixture of uncooked vegetables, built up on a base of green leafy vegetables such as one or more lettuce varieties, dandelion, alfalfa sprouts, cabbage, spinach or arugula.
en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Cookbook:Salad_Recipes   (162 words)

  
 salad - yourDictionary.com - American Heritage Dictionary
Salt was and is such an important ingredient in salad dressings that the very word salad is based on the Latin word for "salt." Vulgar Latin had a verb *sal
As in the case of so many culinary delights, the English borrowed the word and probably the dish from the French.
The words sauce and salsa, borrowed into English from French and Spanish, respectively, both come ultimately from the Latin word salsus, meaning "salted." Another derivative of this word was the Late Latin adjective sals
www.yourdictionary.com /ahd/s/s0035900.html   (290 words)

  
 Ceasar Salad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
The word "salad" comes from the Latin word sal, salt, and the word ata, to eat.
Use a large wooden bowl and utensils for tossing the salad.
use a chilled salad plate, not a soup bowl.
www.wiu.edu /users/mfmjb/j41.html   (274 words)

  
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A schizophrenic person will make up new words or use existing words in a strange way.
Clanging refers to when a schizophrenic puts words together that rhyme, but the rhyming words do not add to the meaning of the conversation.
Words and word classes (e.g., nouns, verbs) are mixed up within a utterance.
www.ursuline.edu /acadaff/psych/PS101/PS101Web/AbnorSchizLang.htm   (88 words)

  
 Salad
The word salad may have come to us from Vulgar Latin, the chiefly unrecorded common speech of the ancient Romans, which is distinguished from standard literary, or Classical, Latin.
The word takes its origin from the fact that salt was and is an important ingredient of salad dressings.
The Middle English word salade, is first recorded in a recipe book composed before 1399.
www.ashvital.freeservers.com /salad.htm   (176 words)

  
 Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/salad days
Word of the Day for Saturday March 20, 2004
Those were his salad days, and he thought they might last forever.
: "My salad days,/ When I was green in judgment, cold in blood."
dictionary.reference.com /wordoftheday/archive/2004/03/20.html   (55 words)

  
 SHS Computer Contest 98
The rules for paper folding require that letters in the new word appear in the long word in sequence from left to right.
To make the word "SALAD" however, one would have to move the "S" to the left of the "ALAD".
Then have your program determine if it is possible or not to make the small word by folding the large word and concealing some of the letters.
www.sandusky.k12.mi.us /cs98.htm   (2328 words)

  
 LaughAtlantis: Debunking the myth of salad   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
Anyway, the whole fruit salad singing business was extended into dinner when it turned out that the first course was - you guessed it - fruit salad.
We also pointed out that pasta salad doesn’t technically have salad (as he understands it) in it.
And fruit salad is not really salad unless there’s some sort of dressing - and who puts dressing on fruit sal… I mean, on fruit.
www.laughatlantis.com /archives/000643.html   (682 words)

  
 Between the Lions . Parents & Teachers . Word Salad Game | PBS Kids   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
To play, "plant" small words to grow bigger ones.
Think of words for things that grow, that have smaller words inside them.
Plant the word "let" and it will grow into a "lettuce".
pbskids.org /lions/parentsteachers/resources/anywhere/c_salad.html   (63 words)

  
 VIOLENCIA
This lead to Sonny's joining WORD SALAD, who already had several releases out.
WORD SALAD had been touring the US for years, and after Sonny joined the band they continued to tour relentlessly, in addition to inking a deal with Prank records out of San Francisco.
WORD SALAD came to an end in 1999, with most members relocating to the Bay Area.
www.watchthemdie.com /band.html   (360 words)

  
 Gig Salad | Testimonials | Talent Representation | Agent, Agents, Agencies, Entertainment
Booking live entertainment with Gig Salad for your corporate event, festival, wedding, reception, holiday party, private function, hotel, club or concert venue is easy.
I have been on less than a year and have averaged about three gigs per month and as of the past few weeks I have been getting call after call for work.
Gig Salad is the first site to be run by entertainment people, not just techno types.
www.gigsalad.com /testimonials.php   (733 words)

  
 Boston Legal: Word Salad Days - TV.com
The actual medical term for "Word Salad" is Aphasia.
Tell the world what you think of Word Salad Days, write a review for this episode.
See all Word Salad Days Community Reviews (5) »
www.tv.com /boston-legal/word-salad-days/episode/654239/summary.html   (344 words)

  
 Word Salad - tribe.net
An agglomerative agglutination of accreous words, word-like objects, and wordish devices that generally add up to less than the sum of their participles.
Nonsense, after all is just nonsense, but the study of nonsense is science.
Woman ordered to remove words from home photo flag
wordsalad.tribe.net   (72 words)

  
 Word Salad Spam Poetry » CogDogBlog
Rummaging quickly through my filtered email (some legit things keep falling through), I came across one of those ones with 2 cryptic links and then a whole raft of random words.
I think the intent is to try and flood or fool email filters (but this is my un-educated guess, but see The War On Spam for more).
Just for fun, I decided to take the words, add a few RETURNS and indents, and present it as “Word Salad Spam Poetry” (word salad being the jumbled of un-related words by those suffering from schizophrenia)….
cogdogblog.com /2005/01/29/word-salad   (428 words)

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