I have been meaning to post this for a couple of days but because of move-in to college and all the prep related I've been procrastinating on this.
Recently, in the Laguage Log, I discovered an awesome word: Locution
This word appeared in a post Pure Chinese in the second paragraph of the text. It's a synonym for "expression", "manner of speaking", "phraseology"(this is even listed as a synonym in Merriam-Webster). I feel that this word can be used often, considering that many of my friends have fairly strange ways of expressing themselves when it comes to speech.
I got the impression that the article itself is more speculation than concrete analysis. However, it does introduce some cool different approaches to dealing with ambiguous translation situations.
