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In reply to:And I wonder, did they have arguments about grammar when most people didn't write?
I looked up soloikismos and soloikizo, the origins of our word solecism. The LSJ entry for soloikismos http://makeashorterlink.com/?C54F241B5 tells us that a solecism is a grammatical mistake, while a barbarism (barbarismos) is a misuse of words. One of the earlies uses of soloikizo (commit solecims) comes from Herodotus, where he tells us that the Sauromatae speak Scythian (not a written language) but with many solecisms.http://makeashorterlink.com/?O38F121B5
While googling for solecism I found this, which at first glance looks fascinating, if somewhat irrelevant:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?O38F121B5
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