Elephant in the Room Solution Considerations

[oshfdk]

... a question that has come up in my mind when reading your posts in rejecting some solution lacking grammatical expectation, i.e., being a “salad.” While this may make sense for a text we may suspect is not ciphered at all, why a “salad” itself could not be a ciphering method?

A poem, for example, may not meet grammar expectations, but a choice of words can convey a meaning, and even the multiple meaning may be intentional sometimes, as in metaphors, or as not giving away the author’s intent too easily. Why have we taken for granted that the author had to follow a grammatical order, rather than sharing key words to convey a meaning? Can a “word salad” be a way of keeping a writing private, inventing one’s own abbreviation rules and symbols, especially the text was intended as a personal notebook?

I'm not sure "word salad" is only about the grammar. I understand "word salad" as an incoherent sequence of words that requires some elaborate interpretation to convert it to an at least somewhat meaningful phrase. "See red star sunset Vesper blood sign bad omen" is agrammatical, but I wouldn't call it "word salad", more like "word chaining". On the other hand, "star water bring grass tuna poem larva thread blood giraffe" is a word salad.

Also, I don't think there are any prohibited assumptions. We cannot interrogate the creator of the manuscript and get a definite answer as to what was the idea and the method by which the manuscript was created. So, the only reasonable way to evaluate a theory is by how well it is accepted by other researchers. There are no prohibited assumptions, it may be possible to produce a good theory with agrammatical text, but then it should be very persuasive in some other aspect and probably provide a good explanation of why there is no proper grammar in the manuscript.