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