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translatese

noun

Etymology

From translate + -ese.

  1. derived from trānslātus
  2. derived from translater
  3. inherited from translaten — “to transport, translate, transform”
  4. suffixed as translatese — “translate + ese”

Definitions

  1. Awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation, for example due to overly literal…

    Awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation, for example due to overly literal translation of idioms or syntax.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for translatese. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA