| agrammatism |
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A language disorder that makes it difficult to form properly structured sentences.
Notes: 1. It's one of the key symptoms of Broca's aphasia. |
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Example - "There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again." George Bush, Jr. (speech in Nashville, Tenn, Sept. 17, 2002) |
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Etymology - It derives from a word that means "illiterate" in Greek. |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first citation is from 1881: "Agrammatismus, inability to form a grammatical sentence." ( Syd. Soc. Lex. I,) |