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  • verb UK Alternative spelling of foreignize.

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  • Debates about translation have been raging since the Romans, and, crudely, they all come down to the same decision: whether to "domesticate" the translation or to "foreignise" it.

    languagehat.com: MAGUIRE ON TRANSLATION. 2005

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