-
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)...
- the mid-17th century,
after he was
banished by the Sikh
orthodoxy for
mistranslating scripture in
front of the
Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, so as to not cause...
- (done, for example, by an interpreter).
Literal translation leads to
mistranslation of idioms,
which can be a
serious problem for
machine translation. The...
- (p. 264.)
Writing in 1936,
Charles Cutler Torrey explains that the
mistranslation at Jn 14:2
arose from an
erroneous vocalization. List of
English Bible...
-
whether the rite was a
literary invention of the
original texts, a
mistranslation of the
texts themselves, or an
authentic historical practice. The blood-eagle...
-
sometimes drastically distorting Verne's
original (including
uniformly mistranslating the
French scaphandre —
properly "diving suit" — as "cork-jacket", following...
-
inconsistencies and
making doctrinal reversals,
making failed predictions,
mistranslating the Bible,
harshly treating former Jehovah's Witnesses, and leading...
- red bayberry, yumberry, waxberry, or
Chinese strawberry (and
often mistranslated from
Chinese as arbutus) is a
subtropical tree
grown for its fruit....
-
present one from
about 1500 to 1800. This
change has
resulted in
several mistranslations: For example,
Saint Augustine's
warning that
Christians should beware...
-
original account was
actually a
large storage jar, but the word was
later mistranslated. In
modern times an
idiom has
grown from the
story meaning "Any source...
