translationese en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
From translation + -ese.
Meanings
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(uncountable) Language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation, such as due to overly literal translation of idioms or syntax.
Note on the Sources and Translations / Some of the works translated here are poetic in form. Hesiod, the hymnists, Lucretius, Vergil, and Horace, for example, all wrote in meter. I have not attempted to render these works metrically in English, and to capture all the irony, double-entendres, and wordplay of these texts was simply not possible, though I have striven to communicate some of their poetic qualities. In any event, at every turn I have studiously avoided translationese, while still trying to convey accurately what a given author actually wrote and meant. I hope I have succeeded, and also captured something of each writer's personality and charm.
2021, M.D. Usher, transl., edited by M.D. Usher, How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land (Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series), Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page xiii:
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Translations (7)
fi käännöskieli (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation) · ja 翻訳調 (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation) · pt tradutês (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation) · it traduttese (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation) · he תַּרְגּוּמִית (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation) · cmn 翻譯腔 /翻译腔 (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation) · ko 번역체 (language exhibiting awkwardness or ungrammaticality of translation)