Being an amateur translator, Tom often makes the mistake of writing translationese.
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Translationese
Synonyms for "translationese" (3 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
6 translations across 6 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 翻譯腔 /翻译腔 noun (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation)
Finnish
1 entries- käännöskieli noun (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation)
Italian
1 entries- traduttese noun (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation)
Japanese
1 entries- 翻訳調 noun (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation)
Korean
1 entries- 번역체 noun (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation)
Portuguese
1 entries- tradutês noun (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation)
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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.
Source: wiktionary
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