Why this word is great
ENSALADA — [Noun] A genre of polyphonic secular music mixing languages, dialects, and nonsensical quodlibets. Borrowed from Spanish ensalada (literally 'salted'), from Latin herba salata ('salted herb'), from sal ('salt'). Unlike the 'madrigal' (a refined, monolingual form) or the 'quodlibet' (a playful but musically constrained medley), the ensalada is a riotous feast of sound—a cacophony of French courtly love, Italian street cries, and Latin liturgical phrases tumbling over one another like drunk revelers at a banquet. It is the clatter of mismatched crockery, the tang of vinegar cutting through honey, the way laughter erupts in a room where no one speaks the same tongue—proof that harmony need not mean uniformity.