-
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)...
- The
Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA),
often mistranslated as the
Tentera Pembebasan Kebangsaan Malaya, was a
communist guerrilla army that fought...
- red bayberry, yumberry, waxberry, or
Chinese strawberry (and
often mistranslated from
Chinese as arbutus) is a
subtropical tree
grown for its fruit....
- (done, for example, by an interpreter).
Literal translation leads to
mistranslation of idioms,
which can be a
serious problem for
machine translation. The...
-
Christians should beware of mathematici,
meaning "astrologers", is
sometimes mistranslated as a
condemnation of mathematicians. The
apparent plural form in English...
-
qualifications of the Messiah. #Biblical
verses "referring" to
Jesus are
mistranslations. #Jewish
belief is
based on
national revelation.
Conservative Waxman...
-
original account was
actually a
large storage jar, but the word was
later mistranslated. In
modern times an
idiom has
grown from the
story meaning "Any source...
- The
orthography of the Old
Norse language was diverse,
being written in both
Runic and
Latin alphabets, with many
spelling conventions,
variant letterforms...
- 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...
-
Italian restaurants and diners. The term
wedding soup
comes from a
mistranslation of the
Italian language phrase minestra maritata ('married soup'). Minestra...
