What does idiomless mean?
Idiomless means without idioms..
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without idioms..
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.
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.
It 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;
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Idiomless means without idioms..
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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.
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