Google define: word salad
Yields such as:
Gosh, all the definitions seem to involve schizophrenia. That usage was unfamiliar to me. Perhaps it originated as jargon in the field of psychiatry.
That flavor is never meant here, or any of the many times I've heard the phrase used, but instead has a more general meaning of: words strung together with little attention to semantics -- a little this, a little that, all chopped and mixed together.
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Wikipedia is the extended, more general meaning:
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When applied to a physical theory, "word salad" is a derogatory description that labels the theory as senseless or utterly devoid of meaning.
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