Sacred solecisms. However, this name sounds pleasant to the ear. From the Latin
soloecismus
,
“syntax faults”
, its history is tasty. The word comes to us from the south of present-day Turkey, in Cilicia. There was a Greek city there called Soles, informs Julien Soulié in
Par humor du français, spelling as it has never been explained to you
(the vuibert bookstore). This island attracted a large number of Athenians, who mingled with the former inhabitants. They "
then lost in their commerce the politeness of their language, and soon spoke like barbarians"
(
L'Encyclopédie
, 1751).
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This is how
“solecism”
was born , a name that designated these inhabitants identified by their unsightly patois.
Today, he sometimes says to himself, figuratively and jokingly, of some fault or other.
We sometimes hear someone regret
"a solecism in conduct"
, or affirm:
"he makes strange solecisms in this science"
.
The word more commonly refers to these grammatical errors such as:
"I went to the hairdresser this morning"
,
"I'm coming right away"
or
"don't give me"
.
If these are frequent, it is possible to avoid them.
A little practice, and you're done!
Le Figaro
offers you a test to stop committing these solecisms.
Will you be faultless?