word_salad vicious This is an intriguing and still rather puzzling issue. Generally speaking, the topic falls under the rubric of "thought process disorder." (The term "formal thought disorder" is also used by some clinicians.) Associated terms in the schizophrenia literature include "tangentiality," "derailment," "neologisms," "loose associations" and "blocking." Sometimes, in extreme cases of thought process disorder, the patient's verbiage is described as "word salad" - as if someone tossed a bunch of words and phrases up in the air and caught them in a bowl! 000109 ... jenniker (cabbage grabbage) a punky monkey and creepy tweetie meet on the street and greet. oh the heat was hot in august hot as hell and the smell burned up the split-rail fence. 001011 ... . . 050104 ... hsg what kinda dressing goes with said skitzo salad? 050724 what's it to you? who go blather from