How To Use Mistranslation In A Sentence
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It is an admirable method to avoid misunderstanding and mistranslation of the source text, which often provides insight into the source culture.
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The mistranslation, despite appearances, was not the cause for my concern.
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Through analyses of some mistranslation sin Chinese version of American Tragedy, this article discusses the basis of these two wrong concepts and translator's method and manner in translation.
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There are many unbelievers who tried to point out several alleged contradictions in the Qur'an but all of their attempts were either out of context, mistranslations or misquotations.
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For example, the work "Mappae Clavicula" (little key to the table) may be a mistranslation of Baphes kleis (Key to tinting) via latinization as Baphae clavicula and alteration of Baphae to Mappae by a scribe.
Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it
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It then admitted there was a "mistranslation" and the Kurdish word "kak" means brother and is a common term of respect.
Yassin Aref's Struggle for Justice in Police State America
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It tractive off a faceted that mistranslation a maigre of fired fugue vividly the fumigation and synaesthetic avalokitesvara dictamnus from shoreward hausmannite on two purdah platonism.
Rational Review
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A reasonable man might call this mistranslation at least.
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Lord Acton's erroneous idea, that Ridolfi was employed by Pius V to obtain Elizabeth's assassination, seems to have arisen from a mistranslation of Gabutio's Latin Life of St. Pius in the Bollandists Cecil eventually discovered the intrigue; Norfolk was beheaded, 2 June, 1572, and the Puritans clamoured for Mary's blood, but in this particular Elizabeth would not gratify them.
Mary Queen of Scots
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She put too many vague sentences in the story, which eventually caused our mistranslation.
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Anthropology provides theoretical frame for the thesis, making it convenient to classify ideational mistranslation into five categories, as addressed previously.
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V., cxix, "That lay waste", a mistranslation), an equivalent of Heb. rothem, a sort of broom (Retama retem, cf.Arab. ratam).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
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From the mistranslation department: Culinaria one day featured baked "nightshade" as part of its takeaway menu.
The Prague Post
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This paper makes efforts to analyze with full and accurate examples how ideology, poetics, value and religion affect Lin Shu and induce his cultural mistranslation .
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I see that a couple of days ago, the first electric car was approved for use on public roads across the EU (they call it "homologated" but that's technically a mistranslation - this is more like a "certificate of roadworthiness" or "general type approval".
The J Curve
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The critic Frank Kermode corrected our mistranslation of Aristotle's word hamartia (tragic flaw), suggesting that a more accurate and useful interpretation would be missing the mark.
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Or perhaps, through some awful mistranslation, spark an intragalactic war.
Times, Sunday Times
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One of the important ways to avoid mistranslation is to reveal the factors responsible for misinterpretation and cultural conflicts underlying the languages.
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Excursions into linguistics amount to no more than a series of folk etymologies and mistranslations.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Your typical correspondent carps about a mistranslation, a geographical inaccuracy, an obscure word obscurely misused.
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Anthropology provides theoretical frame for the thesis, making it convenient to classify ideational mistranslation into five categories, as addressed previously.
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The adoption of the term virgin was not a mistranslation: it was a judgment of the translators based on the texts which they had before them and the audience for which the translation was intended.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 2
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The unfortunate mistranslation of water hyacinth as "water lily" is seen less frequently these days.
Did you know? Lake Chapala under attack from water hyacinth
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There are no amusing typos, which is a notable absence given that mistranslations have been a mainstay of British comedy for decades.
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There are no amusing typos, which is a notable absence given that mistranslations have been a mainstay of British comedy for decades.
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I should never object to calling a graceless duke Tour Grace: nor to praying for a villariously bad monarch as our most religious and gracious King (I know quite well, small critic, that religious is an absurd mistranslation: but let us take the liturgy in the sense in which ninety-nine out of every hundred who hear it understand it): for it seems to me that the daily recurring phrases are something ever suggesting what mankind have a right to expect from those in eminent station; and a kindly determination to believe that such are at least endeavoring to be what they ought.
The Recreations of a Country Parson
