-
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)...
-
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...
- (done, for example, by an interpreter).
Literal translation leads to
mistranslation of idioms,
which can be a
serious problem for
machine translation. The...
- 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...
-
Italian restaurants and diners. The term
wedding soup
comes from a
mistranslation of the
Italian language phrase minestra maritata ('married soup'). Minestra...
- more controversial. John P.
Meier argues that the term "Zealot" is a
mistranslation and in the
context of the
Gospels means "zealous" or "religious" (in...
-
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...
- who was
created through a
mistranslation. The
saint was
inadvertently fabricated by
Caesar Baronius when he
mistranslated the
notes of John Chrysostom...
- 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...
-
although it has been
argued that it is
based on a
misunderstanding or
mistranslation. Some
scholars suggest that the word's
meaning is
closer to "eternal...
