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user 215927
Questions on the general character or attitude of a phrase, sentence or other form of written language.
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Need softer, less potentially offensive word for "malapropism"
Say the phrasing is not idiomatic.
That says you are not judging the words as wrong, but the understanding will be confused because English is particularly idiomatic.
After all, there's no account …
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