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@RadioFreeTom it seems a number of your followers were interested in a thesaurus for a possible language edition of Press Conference Bingo. I'm not diagnosing anything here. I am only providing a reliable and dictionary for some of the most commonly observed language problems:
*Pressured Speech* happens when someone is speaking so rapidly that they can't be interrupted, while *Distractible Speech* is just what you think it might be, something like: "We are winning this war...that's a great tie you're wearing"
*Anomia* is the ability to describe something but be unable to actually pull the name out of your memory, while *Neologisms* are made up words, like, say, "Cofeve" and a *malapropism* is saying "reef" when you meant to say "wreath"
*Circumstantial speech* is speech that drifts off but eventually gets to the point, while *illogical speech* makes no sense at all and *derailment* is speech that tends to slip off track by talking about ideas that are obliquely or not at all related.
*tangential speech* happens when the speaker goes off track in unexpected directions and never finds his way back, while a *loosening of associations* happens when someone uses words that don't actually relate to the sentence structure or context (Yes, these are related)
*word salad* is just what you think it is - a toss up of words, like: "Oh it was amazing you know the COVID tests were broken but the oil profits fell." Other terms like "Illogical thinking," "misnaming" and "stilted speech" speak for themselves (excuse the pun)
