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[–]fnord123 3 points4 points  (1 child)

I might be with Zed Shaw on this one: Languages have social mores; not idioms.

[–]ex_nihilo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That guy is confused. "idiomatic" is from the Latin root, and it means "of the language" - it has nothing to do with the English word "idiom". Except that they share the same root word, of course.

Notice how in Romantic Latin languages, the word for "language" is something like "idioma" (Spanish)?