Word salad is language with meaningless, scrambled words. It is unintelligible, which means a listener cannot find any meaning in the spoken sentence. The words in the sentence may or may not be in grammatically correct order.
'Word salad' is most often seen as a symptom of a neurological or mental disorder. The term is often used in psychiatry and theoretical linguistics to describe language which native speakers judge is meaningless.
Word salad occurs in neurological or psychological cases in which a person tries to communicate, and words and phrases come out – but make no sense. Often, the person is unaware that the words they spoke did not make sense. It appears in people with dementia and schizophrenia, and after anoxic brain injury.
It may be present as:
Word salad can be generated by a computer program for various purposes.
Mojibake, also called Buchstabensalat ("letter salad") in German, is an effect similar to word salad, in which an assortment of seemingly-random text is generated.
Lorem ipsum is a dummy text that is mainly used to show what text on a page or website would look like.