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Direct translation
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:17 pm
by oceanbreeze
Hi all,
Is there another word/phrase for "direct translation", i.e., direct translation from one's mother tongue which often results in a string of meaningless words? I'm sure there is, but it seems to have slipped my memory.
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:15 pm
by fluffyhamster
(Too) literal, incorrect, machine translation?
Posted: Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:27 pm
by lolwhites
Maybe "transfer"?
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:12 am
by Lotus
Gloss?
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:58 am
by Stephen Jones
Word-for-word translation.
Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:41 pm
by revel
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Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:07 am
by Jimbobob
revel wrote:"Waste of Time"?
I like it. We'll call it 'Wot?'
Re: Direct translation
Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:59 pm
by MrPedantic
oceanbreeze wrote:Is there another word/phrase for...direct translation from one's mother tongue which often results in a string of meaningless words?
Babel Fish?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:44 pm
by veranike
loan translation, calque
however I'd rather say word-for-word translation. Interestingly, in my mother tongue, Hungarian the word-for-word equivalent is "mirror translation"
Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:44 pm
by woodcutter
A word-for-word translation is just a helpful teaching tool though, I don't think you really see that as an attempt at general translation.
I think the term needed must be written here somewhere - but it depends on the precise situation the OP is thinking of, they are all different.
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:58 pm
by Macavity
haphazard