Posted on 11/29/2012 4:43:43 AM PST by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
anacoluthon \an-uh-kuh-LOO-thon\, noun
1. A construction involving a break in grammatical sequence, as It makes me so—I just get angry.
2. An instance of anacoluthia.
Example sentences:
She employed, not from any refinement of style, but in order to correct her imprudences, abrupt breaches of syntax not unlike that figure which the grammarians call anacoluthon or some such name.
-- Marcel Proust, The Remembrance of Things Past
Sometimes there is no main verb at all, or the sentence is an anacoluthon, beginning in one way and ending in another.
-- Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda
Etymology:
Anacoluthon has a very literal meaning in Greek. The root kolouth- meant "march." However this root has two prefixes. First, the prefix a- means "together." The other prefix "an-" means "not following." In Greek anakólouthos meant "not following."
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Practice makes perfect.....post on....
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The Democrat Party: The Evil leading the Stupid.
say what you will about her, i think Ann Coulter looks damn good for 50 yo.
This is where parallel universes would come in handy. Let the Democrats who believe all is fine with Social Security because they have trillions in the “lock box” live in one and those who understand that the money is gone live in another.
Yowza. A+ for you.
Which is why I am begging them to drive us over the fiscal cliff. DO IT BOEHNER, I DARE YOU! A+ for you, Neo.
Whether we believe in parallel universes or not, it’s clear that we live in one and the dems live in another. parallel universe, alternate reality, down the rabbit hole, however you want to put it.
They have just been around longer. A for you.
He may be right. A+ for you.
Are you alluding to the anniversary of my 39th?
I just got dressed - and now I have my anacoluthon......
Am I?
the 15th anniversary of your 39th? ; )
A little on the etymology: This word comes from the Greek akoloutheo, which means "to follow." When you put an "a-" in front of a word in Greek (or, in this case, an "an-," since it precedes a vowel sound), that is called an alpha privative, since the alpha prefix negates the word. So "anacoluthon" means "There is nothing following" or "It does not follow" (cf. the Latin non sequitur).
Another derivative of akoloutheo: "acolyte," someone who "follows" the priest around in the chancel.
Thank goodness. Now you can open the curtains. A for you.
I wouldn’t want my neighbors to see my paraprosdokians.......
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