COF Senior Member United States Joined 5831 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 1 of 2 10 March 2012 at 3:58pm | IP Logged |
In standard language, which language tends to use most idioms and which language tends to speak more literally, and not make so much use of idioms?
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clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5178 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi
| Message 2 of 2 15 March 2012 at 7:03pm | IP Logged |
It's hard to tell that, but I would vote Chinese, There are so-called 4 character idioms in Chinese, and you can find very big collections of them on some websites.
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