mistranslation
Americannoun
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the act of translating incorrectly.
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a word, sentence, etc., that has been translated incorrectly.
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After Omar arrives in America, much of the opera’s drama is channeled through what the production’s director, Kaneza Schaal, called “a contest of languages,” involving much translation and mistranslation.
From New York Times ● May 19, 2022
“The elves didn’t build a weapon,” Fenn tells Istredd, correcting a mistranslation in the text.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 22, 2021
But it's an especially significant mistranslation given what it reveals about the unequal backgrounds of the game's contestants, with some having formal or even decorated educational backgrounds, and others not.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2021
Yet all this revelling in gameshow exotica was born out of a subtle mistranslation.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 29, 2019
Some have argued that it’s a mistranslation in the bible.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
What started it all, writes historian Karl Dannenfelt, was a series of mistranslations and misunderstandings.
From National Geographic ● May 1, 2023
She is improving what she says are mistranslations, and much of her project involves simply inserting commas.
From New York Times ● Aug. 6, 2021
What irked Steven Stalinsky, MEMRI’s executive director, was that few reporters came to his nonprofit to obtain its side of the story, which was that there were no mistranslations or distorted editing.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 2, 2017
The few mentions of roses in the King James Bible, such as “the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose,” are probably mistranslations.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2013
But we know that these are mere mistranslations.
From Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by Chambers, R. W.
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