Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 1, 2010
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anacoluthia \an-uh-kuh-LOO-thee-uh\, noun:
anacoluthia \an-uh-kuh-LOO-thee-uh\, noun:
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Lack of grammatical sequence or coherence, esp. in a sentence.
Lack of grammatical sequence or coherence, esp. in a sentence.
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When off-script and/or off-teleprompter, the B.O. suffers from anacoluthia!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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While anacoluthia generally describes a grammatically garbled sentence, an anacoluthon is a technical term in rhetoric that describes "a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence, as in 'It makes me so-I just get angry.'"
While anacoluthia generally describes a grammatically garbled sentence, an anacoluthon is a technical term in rhetoric that describes "a construction involving a break in grammatical sequence, as in 'It makes me so-I just get angry.'"
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