translationesen.
/trɑːnsˌleɪʃəˈniːz/, /trɑːnzˌleɪʃəˈniːz/, /tranzˌleɪʃəˈniːz/, /transˌleɪʃəˈniːz/, U.S. /ˌtrænzˌleɪʃəˈniz/, /ˌtræn(t)sˌleɪʃəˈniz/ The style of language perceived as characteristic of (bad) translations; language in a translation which appears awkward, unnatural, or unidiomatic, esp. as a result of the translator attempting to replicate closely the specific features of the source text. Cf. translatese n., translatorese n.
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1914 Classical Rev. 28 98/1 The language of poetical ‘translationese’.
1964 Listener 3 Dec. 911/2 The kind of unthinking ‘translationese’ which has so often..imparted to translated Russian literature a distinctive, somehow ‘doughy’ style.
1984 Times 21 Mar. 17/5 A useless mixture of mushy colloquialisms..and translationese.
2013 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 22 June (Features section) 23 Kudos has to go to the translator..for rendering Tesson's directness and dreaminess with fully supple English—there's never a whiff of translationese.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1914- rack and manger
- rack and pinion
- rack bar
- rack block
- rack board
- rack car
- rack chain
- rack chase
- rack deal
- rack easel
- rack hook
- rack jack
- rack job
- rack kelp
- rack lever
- rack mount
- rack mounting
- rack of bones
- rack off
- rack on
- rack one's brain
- rack one's brains
- rack one's etc
- rack one's memory
- rack one's wit