The Italian proverb is obscure, and its explanation even more so.  "This proverb urges us to choose the most qualitative alternative."  What does "qualitative" mean in this context ?  Is it just a complicated way of saying "best" ?  And "alternative" to what ?  Is "make the best choice" intended ? The other examples do not help my understanding of this either. The difficulty appears to be that anacoluthon makes nonsense of a sentence, so examples using archaic language, which even if they followed "correct" syntax would be difficult to understand, obscure the essential character of anacoluthon rather than illustrating it.  We need several examples which use modern language. Moreover,