by Alan Barton, All News Pipeline:
This column is perhaps a bit different than our normal ones in that although there maybe some imbedded links, there will be no videos at the end as they are included where appropriate; nor will I imbed any graphics as the videos serve that purpose as well. In order to save you time, I will also recommend the time spots if you wish to forward to those even though I tried to keep them short as a matter of function. I do this because the whole thing is based on these videos to make some sense of the ideas presented, and is also why I will fall back to my old shtick of defining a few words before we really get started. So please bear with me as I proceed; I hope you find this is both entertaining as well as informative.
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While Aphasia is an “acquired language disorder often resulting from a stroke or brain injury. It affects a person’s ability to process, use, and/or understand language” we should not confuse it with Dysarthria which is a speech disorder caused by muscle weakness which is often caused by stroke among other reasons. One of the common causes of Aphasia is by having a stroke, and that is the only reason I bring up this condition as it may play a role in the final analysis.
Malapropism is the “usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase [especially] the use of a word sounding somewhat like the one intended but ludicrously wrong in the context” and is actually fairly common such as this example, “Thinking of the geography of contiguous countries, she spoke of the “geometry” of “contagious countries,” and she hoped that her daughter might “reprehend” the true meaning of what she was saying. She regretted that her “affluence” over her niece was small.”
A Sniglet is “an often humorous word made up to describe something for which no dictionary word exists” and brings us up to our first video, only 1 minute and forty two seconds long.
Jibberish on the other hand, other than being the alternate spelling of Gibberish, is “Unintelligible or nonsensical talk or writing…. Unnecessarily pretentious or vague language” and also “rapid chatter like that of monkeys … incomprehensible talk; nonsense”. That is something I run across often both in real life as well as in various forms of media.
Gobbledygook is “wordy and generally unintelligible jargon” and also “complicated language that is difficult to understand, especially when used in official documents”.
With that out of the way we can get down to one that has been in the news lately, and that is more a phrase than a word, and also introduces us to the main subject to be considered. That word, or phrase, is Word Salad. Defined as (in psychology) “unintelligible, extremely disorganized speech or writing manifested as a symptom of a mental disorder (such as schizophrenia)” and as a “string of empty, incoherent, unintelligible, or nonsensical words or comments”.
These definitions are reminiscent of a poem by Lewis Carroll called Jabberwocky that he wrote prior to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass which goes like this;
Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy toves
Did gyre and gymble in ye wabe:
All mimsy were ye borogoves;
And ye mome raths outgrabe.
There is a good discussion on that in the Wikipedia link here.
There is a great video of double-talk; “language that appears to be earnest and meaningful but in fact is a mixture of sense and nonsense” that illustrates well the subject we are discussing starring Cliff Nazarro and is only one minute and seventeen seconds long;
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