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- not comparablewithout idioms.
Certainly there is nothing fresh or exciting about his eclectic, idiomless, no-man's language, his monotonous, cluttered, trailing syntax, and his loosely shaped arguments.
1960, John T. Saywell, editor, Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs, page 3192 more examples
The eight proposed criteria of excellence are that: its sentences should be idiomless and ordered in wording; its words should be univocal in meaning, flectionless, phonetic in spelling and unique in pronunciation; its letters should be unique in sound and shape.
1949, American Statistical Association, Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 44, page 80It is a false analogy to say that because we should surrender national sovereignty we should also give up our language and all its literary possibilities for some dismal, idiomless Esperanto;
2003, Northrop Frye, Northrop Frye on Modern Culture, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 199
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