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- adjective Without grammar.
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- adjective linguistics, computing theory Without
grammar or a grammar.
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Examples
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Now, having decrypted the text, the "translator" discovers that there some fragments in here that clearly don't belong, chronologically speaking (one dates to the Renaissance xv-xvi), and that, to make matters even worse, the "highly ambiguous" language consists "in a compressed, grammarless shorthand consisting of sequences of noun/modifier pairs" (xvi), sans "spacing and punctuation" (xvi).
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Now, having decrypted the text, the "translator" discovers that there some fragments in here that clearly don't belong, chronologically speaking (one dates to the Renaissance xv-xvi), and that, to make matters even worse, the "highly ambiguous" language consists "in a compressed, grammarless shorthand consisting of sequences of noun/modifier pairs" (xvi), sans "spacing and punctuation" (xvi).
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Although the introduction quickly escalates into parody on that score--the "compressed, grammarless shorthand" can be rendered in any number of completely incompatible ways--the Lost Books keep returning to moments of figurative translation, in which characters change their nature, their shape, or their state of existence.
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Although the introduction quickly escalates into parody on that score--the "compressed, grammarless shorthand" can be rendered in any number of completely incompatible ways--the Lost Books keep returning to moments of figurative translation, in which characters change their nature, their shape, or their state of existence.
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But Cyphers go where no one has gone before -- into a grammarless jungle of confused ramblings, English-as-a-fourth-language rants against targets apparently chosen at random.
N is for News David 2005
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But it would be a pity if readers with no Russian were to be put off Solzhenitsyn's remarkable Prussian Nights by Ms. Muchnic's strictures on my translation — even though she most equitably displays her disqualifications by giving short renderings of her own which are in turn rhythmless, rhymeless, grammarless, and meaningless.
A Matter of Taste Conquest, Robert 1978
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This shows how universal our clumsy grammarless language is becoming.
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The grammarless speech of the men, the black-rimmed nails of Stella's schoolmaster -- a good classical scholar, but heedless as he was good-hearted, -- jarred upon him, indeed, with the discomfort of a new experience.
Different Girls Various
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Every old printer knows, what is often said, that English is a grammarless tongue, and that no grammarian ever wrote a sentence worth reading.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52 Louise Amelia Knapp Smith Clappe
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No wonder Brander Matthews speaks of English as a grammarless tongue.
Chapter 1. Introductory. 3. The View of Writing Men Henry Louis 1921
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