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translationese

noun

Etymology

From translation + -ese.

  1. derived from trānslātiō
  2. derived from translacioun
  3. inherited from translacioun — “transfer, translation”
  4. suffixed as translationese — “translation + ese”

Definitions

  1. Language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation, such as due to overly…

    Language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation, such as due to overly literal translation of idioms or syntax.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for translationese. 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