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Mar 12, 2020
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Many thanks to Noemi Ortega-Raventós for indulging this silly idea of mine

The writers of Western Antiquity identified over thirty vices of language and style. Soraismus described the mingling of two or more languages affectedly. Homiologia was about a meaningless repetition of words. A solecism was a grammatical error. A cacemphaton is a cacophony, the …

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