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    Id·i·o·lect
    /ˈidēəˌlek(t)/

    noun

    • 1. the speech habits peculiar to a particular person: "in his strange idiolect, he preferred to call angels “angelicals“"
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  3. 3 days ago · idiolect: 1 n the language or speech of one individual at a particular period in life Type of: language , oral communication , speech , speech communication , spoken communication , spoken language , voice communication (language) communication by word of mouth

  4. 2 days ago · “Ida loves Una” is a possible sentence in my idiolect because it has the right kind of constituents, combined in the right kind of way. “Ida Una balloon luft” does not, and so is not a possible sentence in my idiolect (though it is physically possible for me to pronounce and perceive the physical string).

  5. 2 days ago · Not much comes to be known about translators, the mediums charged with the uniquely herculean task of carefully locating an author’s idiolect and then transmuting, or rather recreating it in a foreign language. In a country as varied as ours, where language dramatically changes shape after every odd kilometre, reading Indian literature is ...

  6. 2 days ago · This was a paraphrase of a famous quote by Jacques Ellul, “All language is more or less a riddle to be figured out.” To read full quote see: Jacques Ellul, “Seeing and Hearing: Prolegomena” in Rob Anderson, Kenneth Cissna, and Ronald Arnett (Eds.), The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation, Voice, and Community (Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1994), 123.

  7. 1 day ago · The attraction of subjecting oneself to ideological thought, then, is a new form of something very old: the desire to escape the limitations and uncertainties of the human condition of knowledge and action by availing ourselves of a greater-than-human power.

  8. 1 day ago · Explaining Knowledge We have many kinds of knowledge: perceptual, introspective, scientific, linguistic, ethical, logical, mathematical, aesthetic, historical, and others. Epistemologists have asked which of these is best justified, and which least justified. We should be able to rank them for degree of justification: introspective and mathematical knowledge might get high marks for ...

  9. That's correct. However I'm confident this is a deformation that occurred recently (during the last century). Latin languages have words like bimensuel (twice a month in French) and bimestriel (every 2 months).

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