Definition of Mistranslation. Meaning of Mistranslation. Synonyms of Mistranslation

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Definition of Mistranslation

Mistranslation
Mistranslation Mis`trans*la"tion, n. Wrong translation.

Meaning of Mistranslation from wikipedia

- demonstrated by, for example, the King James Only movement. A famous mistranslation of a Biblical text is the rendering of the Hebrew word קֶרֶן (keren)...
- advanced age; some believe that Methuselah's age is the result of a mistranslation, while others believe that his age is used to give the impression that...
- ungrammatical in that language. It was evidently formed by a word-for-word mistranslation of English "What will be will be". The po****rity of the song has led...
- more controversial. John P. Meier argues that the term "Zealot" is a mistranslation and in the context of the Gospels means "zealous" or "religious" (in...
- (done, for example, by an interpreter). Literal translation leads to mistranslation of idioms, which can be a serious problem for machine translation. The...
- the Walrasian auction and Walrasian auctioneer resulted from Jaffé's mistranslation of the French word crieurs (criers) into auctioneers. Walker and van...
- whether the rite was a literary invention of the original texts, a mistranslation of the texts themselves, or an authentic historical practice. The blood-eagle...
- although it has been argued that it is based on a misunderstanding or mistranslation. Some scholars suggest that the word's meaning is closer to "eternal...
- ethnic sense. The organization's leader Chin Peng has called this a mistranslation and corrected it to Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA). The name...
- Kaisen features a character often translated as ****raga, but that is a mistranslation. The correct one, Eight-Handled Divergent Sword Divine General Makora...