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On a more fundamental level, many American viewers not accustomed to Asian series will be bemused by the stilted, nonidiomatic quality of much of the crowdsourced subtitling.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2023

Saturday night’s free concert at Central Park Summerstage amounted to three and a half hours of intelligent groove, informed by jazz but rarely beholden to it, with improvisation as a binding but nonidiomatic force.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2011

She doesn’t stay very long within standard jazz idioms, or even some of the favored nonidiomatic languages of free improvisation.

From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2010