Russ Allbery schrieb:

> "Bernhard R. Link" <[email protected]> writes:
>> Could you please stop using that word "idiosyncratic".
>
> I believe idiosyncratic is exactly the correct term:
>
>   idiosyncratic
>       adj 1: peculiar to the individual; "we all have our own
>              idiosyncratic gestures"; "Michelangelo's highly
>              idiosyncratic style of painting"
>
> and therefore decline to stop using it.

At least for the non-native speaker of English "idiosyncratic" may
rhyme very unfortunately with "idiotic"; that may be Bernhard's point.


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