-
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)...
- was also
referred to as the
Malayan Races Liberation Army
owing to a
mistranslation. In 1989 the
Communist Party of
Malaya signed a
peace treaty with the...
- (done, for example, by an interpreter).
Literal translation leads to
mistranslation of idioms,
which can be a
serious problem for
machine translation. The...
-
advanced age; some
believe that Methuselah's age is the
result of a
mistranslation,
while others believe that his age is used to give the
impression that...
-
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...
- at
least the 16th century. The
phrase is
evidently a word-for-word
mistranslation of the
English "What will be will be", as in Spanish, it
would be "lo...
-
present one from
about 1500 to 1800. This
change has
resulted in
several mistranslations: For example,
Saint Augustine's
warning that
Christians should beware...
- who was made from clay, and the clay jar
which dispenses evils. The
mistranslation of
pithos is
usually attributed to the 16th-century
humanist Erasmus...
- (indefinite
imprisonment of
extremely dangerous criminals). At trial, a
mistranslation of some of the
transcripts was detected, and
Arabaci was acquitted....
- pinyin: Gōngxǐ gōngxǐ; lit. 'congratulations', 'congratulations'),
mistranslated in
public as "Wishing You
Happiness and Prosperity" (which is the meaning...
