Wortsalat

English translation: word salad

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German term or phrase:Wortsalat
English translation:word salad
Entered by: Susan Welsh

11:21 Aug 10, 2015
German to English translations [PRO]
Medical - Psychology
German term or phrase: Wortsalat
Wortsalat: Kognitives Phänomen von ungeordneten, beschleunigten und schliesslich unlogischen Gedankensequenzen als Gedankenfetzen.
Magdalena Kowalska
United Kingdom
Local time: 17:09
word salad
Explanation:
Dict.cc gives this, or gibberish. See Wikipedia below.

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Note added at 23 mins (2015-08-10 11:44:47 GMT)
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What a terrific expression! I never heard it before, but it's very evocative in both languages.
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Susan Welsh
United States
Local time: 11:09
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4 +9word salad
Susan Welsh
3 +2incoherent speech
liz askew
3jumbled utterances
Michael Martin, MA
3gobbledygook
Wendy Streitparth


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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
incoherent speech


Explanation:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mUF2JGO3iQsC&pg=PA217&lp...

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L.S.D. 25 As an Aid in Psychotherapy: Preliminary Report of ...
www.psymon.com/psychedelia/articles/busch.htm
Schizophrenia, After medication more activity, possibly more alert; mumbling and incoherent speech increased. 2. J.B.. Adm. 9/21/36, F. 53, Paranoid
Cognitive Psychotherapy: Theory and Practice
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=364273393X
Carlo Perris, ‎Ivy M. Blackburn, ‎Hjördis Perris - 2012 - ‎Psychology
... a cognitive-therapy framework, of previous traumatic experiences which may ... almost total social withdrawal, reduced and sometimes incoherent speech, ...
Psychotherapy for People Diagnosed with Schizophrenia: ...
https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=1317540956
Andrew Lotterman - 2015 - ‎Psychology
(1973) developed another symptom list that included restricted affect, incoherent speech, nihilism and delusions. A problem with manyof the crosssectional ...

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 16:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Katie Morrissey
6 mins

agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator): another (more technical) option
2 days 1 hr
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10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
word salad


Explanation:
Dict.cc gives this, or gibberish. See Wikipedia below.

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Note added at 23 mins (2015-08-10 11:44:47 GMT)
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What a terrific expression! I never heard it before, but it's very evocative in both languages.


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_salad
Susan Welsh
United States
Local time: 11:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  liz askew: Handbook of Effective Psychotherapy - Page 327 - Google Books Result https://books.google.co.uk/books?isbn=146152914X Thomas R. Giles - 2012 - ‎Psychology Examples of other positive symptoms are loose associations, word salad, stereotypical behaviors, man
7 mins
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agree  Silke Walter
10 mins
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agree  philgoddard: I'm surprised the asker didn't think to Google this.
12 mins

agree  Ramey Rieger (X)
28 mins

agree  franglish
29 mins

agree  Edith Kelly: Why bother googling if the crowd is happy to comply
44 mins

agree  writeaway
1 hr

agree  Michele Fauble
5 hrs

agree  Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)
2 days 1 hr
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
jumbled utterances


Explanation:
The quote below is from 1920. Still, not much needed to be added here:

"Slips of the tongue are the jumbled utterances of thoughts we did not intend to speak.”
http://clickamericana.com/eras/1920s/how-our-mistakes-give-u...

Michael Martin, MA
United States
Local time: 11:09
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 116
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
gobbledygook


Explanation:
Just because its such a fantastic word!

Wendy Streitparth
Germany
Local time: 17:09
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 31
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