Re: a simple question

[Debbie Molinaro <debbiem -at- UCS -dot- NET>]

From: Martha J Davidson <editrix -at- SLIP -dot- NET>

> At 08:35 AM 9/12/97 -0600, Bill Burns wrote:
> >
> >Seriously, though, it's a horrible paragraph. The parataxis is enough to
> >make my butt squinch.
> >
> Ok, I'll bite.  What's parataxis?
>
> martha, feeling more ignorant than she'd like...

From Hypertext Webster Gateway
see    http://work.ucsd.edu:5141/cgi-bin/http_webster


Definition for Parataxis

Parataxis \Par`a*tax"is\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a placing beside, fr. ? to
place beside.] (Gram.) The mere ranging of propositions one after another,
without indicating their connection or interdependence; -- opposed to
syntax. --Brande & C.

Debbie
....who had to look it up.....


Debbie Molinaro
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