Being an amateur translator, Tom often makes the mistake of writing translationese.
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Translationese
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Adjective(1 words)
awkward phrasing
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Noun(1 words)
translation miswording
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This text is full of translationese.
Source: tatoeba (13257762)
Note on the Sources and Translations / Some of the works translated here are poetic in form. Hesiod, the hymnists, Lucretius, Vergil, and Horace, for example, all wrote in meter. I have not attempted to render these works metrically in English, and to capture all the irony, double-entendres, and wordplay of these texts was simply not possible, though I have striven to communicate some of their poetic qualities. In any event, at every turn I have studiously avoided translationese, while still trying to convey accurately what a given author actually wrote and meant. I hope I have succeeded, and also captured something of each writer's personality and charm.
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