Behind what some people would take as barbarisms, are in fact highly efficient operational data processing tools that render very simple, but increasingly essential services. |
There are some barbarisms in it, which seem to betoken its antiquity. |
It was printed in hard-to-read Gothic font, and is reproduced with all its original barbarisms, spellings and syntax. |
Purism, however, also has its barbarisms, such as the quasiclassical plurals octopi and syllabi for octopus and syllabus, competing with octopuses and syllabuses. |
But there was also an impressive quantum of barbarisms, coloquialisms, double meanings, grammatical errors and anglicisms. |
One of the few barbarisms I committed on the body of a stfzine was cutting out this chart to put in my high-school freshman science workbook. |