What does syllabist mean?
Syllabist means One who forms or divides words into syllables..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
One who forms or divides words into syllables..
These are but slight tricks compared with what have been played with the Hebrew and Arabic; and we verily believe that a clever syllabist could take any English sentence and show that it was any given language and had any given meaning.
The relationship between these views and the Coleridgean preoccupation with "organic" versus "mechanic" form is sufficiently obvious; the theoretical distance between this view and the rationalizing tendencies of the syllabists is vast.
In Yugoslavia the special qualities of the Serbian, the Croatian and the Slovenian languages, above all the musical accent, account for the long disputes between the “syllabists” and the “tonists” in the beginning of this century (and earlier).
Use syllabist when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Syllabist means One who forms or divides words into syllables..
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These are but slight tricks compared with what have been played with the Hebrew and Arabic; and we verily believe that a clever syllabist could take any English sentence and show that it was any given language and had any given meaning.
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