Definitions
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- noun pejorative
Stilted orunidiomatic language produced by automatedtranslation .
Etymologies
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translator + -ese
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Examples
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Colloquial Chatter Mr. Lippa has further postmodernized "Six Characters" by changing its setting to a People's Light & Theatre rehearsal, sprinkling the script with witty references to the Philadelphia theater scene and replacing the stilted translatorese of Edward Storer's long-standard English version with the colloquial chatter you'd expect from a roomful of American actors.
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To repeat what I said in a weblog discussion on April 17, it’s full of translatorese and you can’t easily tell – without clicking on a box – which country the texts come from.
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