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What is a solecism?

What is a solecism? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An erroneous or improper usage.
  2. (grammar) Error in the use of language.
  3. A faux pas or breach of etiquette; a transgression against the norms of expected behavior.
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The pedantry of geometrically straight lines is not only no idealism, it is a solecism in Nature.
Do not even consider committing the solecism of serving it with parmigiano.
It would be a solecism in language to say that any portion of these is not included in the whole.
Incidentally, the hyphen in Goose-Pimples is a solecism, but we'll never know whether it was written by Leigh or improvised by his cast.
They may point out the odd mistake, or even a grammatical solecism, but, if they miss one, who is to blame?
That calculated literary solecism of mixed tenses is at the heart of the essay, enabling Michaels to convey the simultaneity of his different times, a back then and a now.

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