What verb is used to describe the act of making a grammatical error?
If a friend suggests a spelling mistake, that’s called “misspelling”.
Is code needed in a
sentence?
Is this minor grammatical error? This book deals with code, our profession is software design and web technology. Computer people who say “CPU, code”, the right way, are all great. Being a web developer makes you interact with thousands of people online over time. Why do we misspell here?
I’d like to condense make a grammatical error with to a single word, a verb that describes the act of “misgrammaring”.
Is solecism, a rather general term that encompasses grammar mistakes, a possibility? What is infelicity? A few dozen quite-specific kinds of language errors (mostly stylistic rather than grammatical) are explained in BYU’s Stylistic Vices webpage, for example pleonasm ” usage of more words than necessary semantically. Rhetorical repetition that is grammatically superfluous”, sometimes called acyrologia, or “An incorrect use of words, especially the use of words that sound similar but are far in meaning from the speaker’s intentions” (like malapropism, eggcorns, etc). More.An incorrect use of words.
For verbs, consider misspeak (“to fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly”.). Wikipedia says Misspeaking is a word
used to describe the act of speaking “incorrectly, unclearly, or misleadingly”, to “fail to convey the meaning one intends by one’s words” Also consider the form
to err grammatically. Verb err means to make any kind of mistake that would result in a violation of strict
grammar.
Is solecism, a rather general term that encompasses grammar mistakes, a possibility? What is infelicity? A few dozen quite-specific kinds of language errors (mostly stylistic rather than grammatical) are explained in BYU’s Stylistic Vices webpage, for example pleonasm ” usage of more words than necessary semantically. Rhetorical repetition that is grammatically superfluous”, sometimes called acyrologia, or “An incorrect use of words, especially the use of words that sound similar but are far in meaning from the speaker’s intentions” (like malapropism, eggcorns, etc). More.An incorrect use of words.
For verbs, consider misspeak (“to fail to pronounce, utter, or speak correctly”.). Wikipedia says Misspeaking is a word
used to describe the act of speaking “incorrectly, unclearly, or misleadingly”, to “fail to convey the meaning one intends by one’s words” Also consider the form
to err grammatically. Verb err means to make any kind of mistake that would result in a violation of strict
grammar.
