Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
anacoluthon .
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- noun Plural form of
anacoluthon . - noun Alternative spelling of
anacoloutha .
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Examples
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His long sentences remain at times incomplete, thus giving rise to so-called anacolutha (cf. Dt., vi, 10-12; viii, 11 -
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Because these were spontaneous performances, without written notes or an Obaman autocue, they contain several anacolutha.
Archive 2009-02-01 DC 2009
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Because these were spontaneous performances, without written notes or an Obaman autocue, they contain several anacolutha.
On anacolutha DC 2009
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Many of the strictures in Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage are against anacolutha of this kind.
On anacolutha DC 2009
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Are anacolutha triggered by careless expressions then?
On anacolutha DC 2009
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Many of the strictures in Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage are against anacolutha of this kind.
Archive 2009-02-01 DC 2009
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The realization that the grammar of speech is very different from the grammar of writing has become a big thing, over the past 50 years, but anacolutha remain one of the neglected areas of grammatical investigation.
On anacolutha DC 2009
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The realization that the grammar of speech is very different from the grammar of writing has become a big thing, over the past 50 years, but anacolutha remain one of the neglected areas of grammatical investigation.
Archive 2009-02-01 DC 2009
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I'm not surprised the subtitling firm regularized your anacolutha - unless the brief is explicitly to retain speech errors and disfluencies, subtitles are almost never verbatim but are edited for length and clarity for readability purposes.
On anacolutha DC 2009
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Neither is the same precision required in Greek as in Latin or English, nor in earlier Greek as in later; there was nothing shocking to the contemporary of Thucydides and Plato in anacolutha and repetitions.
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