"Performance" was language as it was used every day: ephemeral sentences, made imperfect by slips of the tongue, lapses of attention, idiosyncratic mistakes, odd neighborhood locutions.
The reasons for this appear not to be due to idiosyncratic measurement error but rather due to interviewer mistakes and the like.
His decision to give evidence in idiosyncratic English was a mistake.
And the author's powers of observation are such that one cannot help but associate with all of the characters, in spite of their mistakes and idiosyncratic situations.
A growing literature considers how instruments like dual-class stock, which can increase agency costs, also allow founders to pursue idiosyncratic vision and thereby reduce mistakes that might arise from dispersed ownership (Goshen & Hamdani, 2016).
Astakhov apologised for his "mistake" on Friday, in idiosyncratic fashion.
He is surely right when he says that "Im" has little to be said for it as a variant of "I'm"; it isn't a funky, Emily Dickinson-type piece of idiosyncratic orthography — it's a simple mistake.
You are a man who has enough courage to annul a wrong and mistaken action," he added, in idiosyncratic spelling and capitalization.
Yet enough musical DNA remains, in the form of idiosyncratic warbling and interlocking rhythms, that you would not mistake it for anyone else's work.
So I want to point out something that, if not exactly a mistake, is an odd turn of phrase that shows how idiosyncratic Wolff's book is.
It's in the company's nature to do deeply idiosyncratic things that sound at first blush like they might be a prank or a mistake. .
