Direct translation

oceanbreeze · Post by **oceanbreeze** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 2:17 pm

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.

fluffyhamster · Post by **fluffyhamster** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:15 pm

(Too) literal, incorrect, machine translation?

lolwhites · Post by **lolwhites** » Fri Sep 21, 2007 3:27 pm

Maybe "transfer"?

Lotus · Post by **Lotus** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 4:12 am

Gloss?

Stephen Jones · Post by **Stephen Jones** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 6:58 am

Word-for-word translation.

revel · Post by **revel** » Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:41 pm

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Jimbobob · Post by **Jimbobob** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 6:07 am

revel wrote:"Waste of Time"?

I like it. We'll call it 'Wot?'

MrPedantic · Post by **MrPedantic** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:59 pm

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?

veranike · Post by **veranike** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 9:44 pm

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"

woodcutter · Post by **woodcutter** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 11:44 pm

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.

Macavity · Post by **Macavity** » Sun Dec 09, 2007 7:58 pm

haphazard

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