Talk:Mother tongue mirroring

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Figurative vs. idiomatic[edit]

I like the way the layout has been changed, but I'm rather doubtful as to changing idiomatic translation to figurative translation. Idiomatic means "typical of the natural way in which someone speaks" (says my dictionary), whereas figurative means "used in a different way from its usual meaning". In the examples given, the translation (as apart from the literal translation) is the indeed the normal, the natural, the usual, the good translation, the idiomatic translation, the one which works in every day use.

So "figurative" is misleading here. So I'd like to chnage it back to idiomatic, or normal, natural, usual. Which do you prefer?Laradoks (talk) 08:25, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I didn't think all that much about the wording, actually. I'll change it to "idiomatic". For future reference, it's usually quickest just to change these kinds of things yourself. There's even a template made specially to tell people this. — Mr. Stradivarius (drop me a line) 21:54, 25 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]