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What are solecisms?

What are solecisms? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of solecism
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Those who seemed most impatient of barbarisms, solecisms, and paralogisms in a sermon, seemed to easily tolerate them in their life and conversation.
Unlike the pedants Kamm cites, I wouldn't hang, draw and quarter those who are guilty of grammatical solecisms, but I might hand out the odd Asbo.
It is only after close study that apparent solecisms can be interpreted as the keystones of a highly conscious literary construct.
However this argument leads to the flourishing of solecisms and general language degradation.
That's an ambitious enterprise and, regrettably, the work is let down from achieving such divine afflatus by sloppy editing and far too many solecisms.
The speakers are beautifully and exactly characterized and their dialogue, quite apart from the invaluable evidence for colloquial Latin afforded by the vulgarisms and solecisms in which it abounds, is a humorous masterpiece.

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