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- Es francés, significa anacoluto. Se reduce a cambiar el orden de las palabras en una frase aunque sigue significando lo mismo.
It's a French word for anacoluthon, which means to change the order of words in a sentence, but it still means the same thing.
Pestañeé muchas veces, inserté a propósito algunos anacolutos, para simular un aire dubitativo y que no se sintiera disminuido (y por lo tanto, emasculado) ante tamaña demostración de fortaleza argumental;
I blinked several times and added a few anacoluthons, feigning self-doubt so that he wouldn’t feel diminished (and thereby emasculated) in the face of such a powerful demonstration of argumentative mastery.
La transformación descrita en la novela —de entonces hacia ahora, de ayer hacia hoy, de ella hacia yo, de la primera persona a la tercera— se resume en un fuerte anacoluto, la ruptura de la gramática simboliza perfectamente la ruptura en la vida de aquella mujer.
The transformation described in the novel—then to now—yesterday to today—her to me—first person to third—is resumed in a breezy anacoluthon, the break in grammar perfectly symbolizing the break in this woman’s life.
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