Forensic linguists, recognizing that no two people use language in exactly the same way, will examine the idiolect of an extortion letter to determine authorship.
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Idiolect
//ˈɪd.i.əʊ̯.lɛkt//
Synonyms for "idiolect" (1 found)
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6 entriesTranslations
40 translations across 31 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- idiolek noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Arabic
2 entries- كتبة noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
- لَهْجَةٌ شَخْصِيَّة noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Catalan
1 entries- idiolecte noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 個人習語 /个人习语 noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Czech
1 entries- idiolekt noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Danish
1 entries- idiolekt noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Finnish
2 entries- idiolekti noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
- yksilömurre noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
French
1 entries- idiolecte noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
German
2 entries- Idiolekt noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
- Individualsprachgebrauch noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Greek
2 entries- ιδιόλεκτο noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
- ιδιόλεκτος noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Hungarian
1 entries- idiolektus noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Icelandic
1 entries- einkamállýska noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Indonesian
1 entries- idiolek noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Irish
4 entries- canúint aonair noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
- féinchanúint noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
- idióileict noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
- urlabhra aonair noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Italian
1 entries- idioletto noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Japanese
1 entries- 個人語 noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Korean
1 entries- 개인어 noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Malay
1 entries- idiolek noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Māori
1 entries- reo-ā-tangata noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- idiolekt noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- idiolekt noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Polish
3 entries- idiolekt noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
- język osobniczy noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
- mowa osobnicza noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Portuguese
1 entries- idioleto noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Romanian
1 entries- idiolect noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Russian
1 entries- идиоле́кт noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Spanish
1 entries- idiolecto noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Swedish
1 entries- idiolekt noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Tagalog
1 entries- sariwika noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Turkish
1 entries- bireydil noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ідіоле́кт noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Welsh
1 entries- priodiaith noun (variant of a language used by a particular individual)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The surveillance agency found him by spotting his idiolect on an Internet forum.
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Tom has a very distinct idiolect.
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"I've never seen that word before. Are you sure it's French?" "Oh, that's just Tom's idiolect. He likes to come up with his own way of saying things, usually based on his experience with other languages."
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