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== Distinctions - things not idiomatic == |
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Could we have a section that enumerates things that could be confused with idioms, but really are not? |
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* proverbs (they're a whole sentence) |
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* jargon, slang (does an idiom need to be more than one word?) |
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* metaphors and similes |
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* There's a link to "figures of speech" somewhere, but that term is so vague that I don't know that it's very helpful. |
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Which one is idiom
The idiom “To make clean breast of ” is used to A. gain prominence B. praise oneself C. Confess without any reserve. D. destroy before it blooms
Choose the correct answer. Jayanth2642000 (talk) 01:31, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
Articles
Can someone please meantion the relation between idiomaticity and the use of articles? --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:06, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
- The editor seems to mean definite and indefinite articles like "the" and "a". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.57.15 (talk) 11:55, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
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POV issue with catenas
The section on dealing with non-compositionality writes about the "catena". This section was written by User:Tjo3ya. This user is the researcher who has proposed the "catena" concept. This lead to an issue of possible WP:COI / WP:ADVOCACY on the Catena (linguistics) page. The same issue appears here, and probably in many other places. Kaĉjo (talk) 08:41, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
व्हाट इज Contracted forms
यह मेरा प्रश्न है मुझे समझ नहीं आ रहा है 2409:4053:799:7774:0:0:72E:38B0 (talk) 10:23, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
- Ask at hi.wikipedia.org for Hindi. In English a contraction is a combination of two words while omitting some letters.PrisonerB (talk) 10:28, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
Rescuing "Parlance" section
The following section was deleted on 2 December 2008 due to vandalism. Maybe it should be inserted again?
== Parlance ==<!-- This section is linked from [[Nickname]] --> {{wiktionarypar|Parlance}} "Idiom" can also refer to the characteristic manner of speaking in a language, also called its parlance. An utterance consistent with a language's parlance is described as '''idiomatic'''. For example, "I have hunger" is idiomatic in several European languages if translated literally (e.g. Dutch ''ik heb honger'', German ''ich habe Hunger''; French ''j'ai faim''; Spanish ''tengo hambre''; Italian ''ho fame'', Portuguese ''tenho fome''), but the usual English idiom is "I am hungry". This sense is also carried over to [[programming language]]s, where the former sense does not apply, as an expression or statement in contenging a programming language can generally have only one meaning. For example, in [[Haskell (programming language)|Haskell]], it is possible to apply a function to all members of a list using [[recursion]], but it is more idiomatic to use the [[higher-order function]] <tt>map</tt>.
— Anton Maienfeldt (talk) 10:35, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
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Bass 41.114.255.59 (talk) 11:03, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
Distinctions - things not idiomatic
Could we have a section that enumerates things that could be confused with idioms, but really are not?
- proverbs (they're a whole sentence)
- jargon, slang (does an idiom need to be more than one word?)
- metaphors and similes
- There's a link to "figures of speech" somewhere, but that term is so vague that I don't know that it's very helpful.
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