Salad Language

Salad is a miniature language used in the Python room. It consists of words which happen to be names for vegetables, fruit, fungi, or seeds. Many of the words have fallen out of general use. Speaking salad is optional, but if you want to have a little fun, toss some salad in to your next message.

Lexicon

Term	Definition
Cabbage / cbg	Hello / Hi, I'm back
Rhubarb / rbrb	Goodbye / brb, afk
Potato	How are you?
Sprouts	Sorry
Banana	Good
Bean	Bad
Yam	Strong swear word
Tomato	Mild swear word
Melon	Thank you
Watermelon	You’re welcome
Pineapple	Congratulations
Peaches	Ladies
Pears	Gentlemen
Mushroom	Unsure
Avocado	Yes
Carrot	No
Asparagus	Help
Lettuce	What do you mean?
Artichoke	Incredulous
Peas	Confused
Lemon	What did I just read!?
Green Bean	New Python user
Laurel	lol
Garlic	To recognize, deal with, or kick a help vampire.
kevin’d	(to be) kevin’d (by so.) (adjective) When what you just wrote has been written just before sending your message by someone else. Possibly even in a more detailed way than you did. – See also: inb4.
Beetroot	A birthday / to wish someone Happy Birthday

History

The Salad language was created and introduced to the room on April 10, 2013 by Jon Clements and Inbar Rose. The usage of the greeting quickly spread among regulars, and participants added additional words to the lexicon over time.

Jon Clements	Greetings and salutations or, as I prefer to express it - Cabbage
Inbar Rose	:/ Cabbage to you too then.
Jon Clements	Yup - I believe the correct reply should probably be Asparagus... (but haven't quite worked out the semantics of my new language fully...)
Inbar Rose	Vegetebarian?
Jon Clements	Ummm... not a bad name - might consider that ;0
Inbar Rose	or LinguaVega ? Or, going with the theme. Lets call the language: "Salad" And let me just say, "Turnip orange banana, tomato celery onion."
Jon Clements	Hey - no need to insult my mum ;)
Inbar Rose	I didn't say anything about her. You must think I said "Turnip orange banana, eggpland celery pear."
Jon Clements	paw-paw goatsbeard :(
pcalcao	Good day people
Inbar Rose	Cabbage

Metasyntactic Use

Much like the Smurfs, chat members will occasionally use “cabbage” as a placeholder word in circumstances where it would normally make no sense. For example, the motto of the room is “The productive programming cabbage”. Here, “cabbage” means “language”.