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- noun Plural form of
mistranslation .
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Examples
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To be precise, the terms "truce" and "ceasefire" are mistranslations of the Arabic word for "tahdiyeh" which actually means temporary calm.
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We exposed the numerous, we had almost said wilful, mistranslations from the Latin and Italian -- especially the former -- with which the volume abounded.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various
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He told me how the Authorised Version was a paraphrase, abounding in confusions and in mistranslations from the Greek of Erasmus's New
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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In his review of André Chastel's The Sack of Rome [NYR, March 31], Peter Partner cites five "mistranslations"; he is wrong in every case.
Translation Archer, Beth 1983
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He is furthermore in no position to judge "mistranslations" or "homonymous translations" since he had no original with which to compare them.
Translation Archer, Beth 1983
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However, what may be taken as Pound's "mistranslations" are, as Kenner argues, "deflections undertaken with open eyes . . .
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Just like Daniel Cavanaugh in Chinglish, I like the missteps, mistranslations, and miscommunications, because there is some other form of truth in them too.
Bess Rowen: Lost and Gained In Translation Bess Rowen 2011
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Just like Daniel Cavanaugh in Chinglish, I like the missteps, mistranslations, and miscommunications, because there is some other form of truth in them too.
Bess Rowen: Lost and Gained In Translation Bess Rowen 2011
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Just like Daniel Cavanaugh in Chinglish, I like the missteps, mistranslations, and miscommunications, because there is some other form of truth in them too.
Bess Rowen: Lost and Gained In Translation Bess Rowen 2011
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Nor is there a “hell”, another example of king james mistranslations that have been removed in most modern translations.
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