Word salad occurs when a person’s ability to organize their thoughts and communicate them in a logical, coherent way is impaired. Word salad can be caused by a variety of mental health conditions.

Cloth embroidered by a patient with schizophrenia. An example of word salad. Glore Psychiatric Museum, Saint Joseph, Missouri. Source: Wikimedia Commons/Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic ...

“Courts are pretty good at figuring out word games in most subject matter, but technology is foreign territory to many courts, so a well-tossed word salad can bring about an unjust decision.” Last ...