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by kazinator 2899 days ago
Words and phrases can have a de facto inherent meaning when they are in a language shared by the speaker and listener (including a shared knowledge domain).

When in spite of this shared language/domain situation, a phrase is gobbledygook, it is fair to say it has "no inherent concrete meaning".

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Exactly. It's not like the author is saying, "The cat is on the red table."