Definitions
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- adjective Existing in
multiple languages. - adjective Having the same meaning in many languages.
- adjective of a phrase containing
words of multiple languages - adjective translation studies Operating
between different languages - adjective medicine Occurring or being measured across the
tongue
Etymologies
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Examples
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Creating transnational and translingual debates around political processes - that in addition are also largely opaque and poorly communicated - under these conditions is not trivial; the evolution of common blogosphere hardly possible.
EU politics 2.0: Getting the citizen into European democracy 2009
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There is a gentle playfulness to this hesitancy, so that the poem self-consciously comments on its own use of repetition, teasing itself about its translingual punning and the intimacy of its own descriptions.
Sarah Dowling reads Erin Moure Lemon Hound 2009
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I would definitely recommend Lucky Luke to English-speakers, especially Americans: Rene Goscinny, the writer, apprenticed at Mad, and the humor is interestingly Franco-American, complete with translingual puns.
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That means companies need employees who are "transcultural and translingual," says Elaine Tarone, director of the U of M's Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition.
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