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)...
- was also referred to as the Malayan Races Liberation Army owing to a mistranslation. In 1989 the Communist Party of Malaya signed a peace treaty with the...
- (done, for example, by an interpreter). Literal translation leads to mistranslation of idioms, which can be a serious problem for machine translation. The...
- 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...
- present one from about 1500 to 1800. This change has resulted in several mistranslations: For example, Saint Augustine's warning that Christians should beware...
- at least the 16th century. The phrase is evidently a word-for-word mistranslation of the English "What will be will be", as in Spanish, it would be "lo...
- (though they are fried only once). The English "refried beans" is a mistranslation, since the essence of "frijoles refritos" is the reheating and mashing...
- Press, 2007, p. 893 Dr. Stuart J. Birkby. "'We will bury you': How Mistranslation Heightened Cold War Tensions" (PDF). Galaxy. Archived from the original...
- e****enism has helped bring together such communities, where in the past mistranslations of Christological Gr**** terms may have resulted in seemingly different...
- who was created through a mistranslation. The saint was inadvertently fabricated by Caesar Baronius when he mistranslated the notes of John Chrysostom...