Sarah Palin suffers from rare speech disorder called dysfluency, aka "anacoluthon -- this explains why she speaks so weird in interviews

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Sarah Palin suffers from rare speech disorder called dysfluency, aka "anacoluthon -- this explains why she speaks so weird in run-on sentences in interviews on TV and in newspapers. She is not stupid. She sufferse from anacoluthon, a disorder in speech that impacts about 5 percent of people in any country.

"anacoluthon"



Definition:
An incoherent statement (a type of dysfluency also known as a
syntactic blend) or a deliberate rhetorical effect (a figure of
speech) created by an abrupt change in a sentence to a second
construction inconsistent with the first. Plural: anacolutha.

Etymology:
From the Greek, "inconsistent"


example

"John McCain's maverick position that he's in, that's really prompt up
to and indicated by the supporters that he has."
(Sarah Palin, failed vice presidential debate, Oct. 2, 2008)


"[Heinrich] Lausberg's definition makes anacoluthon a figure of style
rather than a (sometimes expressive) stylistic weakness. As an error
in style it is not always obvious. Ex: 'He couldn't go, how could he?'
Anacoluthon is only frequent in spoken language. A speaker begins a
sentence in a way implying a certain logical resolution and then ends
it differently. A writer would begin the sentence again, unless its
function were to illustrate confusion of mind or spontaneity of
reporting. Both functions are characteristic of interior monologue,
and to the extent that Molly Bloom's monologue [in Ulysses, by James
Joyce] consists of a single unpunctuated sentence, it contains
hundreds of examples of anacoluthon. '. . . I suppose she was pious
because no man would look at her twice I hope Ill never be like her a
wonder she didnt want us to cover our faces . . .'"
(B. M. Dupriez and A. Halsall, Dictionary of Literary Devices, Univ.
of Toronto Press, 1991)

Pronunciation: an-eh-keh-LOO-thon

Also Known As: a broken sentence, syntactic blend