translatoresen.
/trɑːnsˌleɪtəˈriːz/, /trɑːnzˌleɪtəˈriːz/, /tranzˌleɪtəˈriːz/, /transˌleɪtəˈriːz/, U.S. /trænzˌleɪdəˈriz/, /træn(t)sˌleɪdəˈriz/ 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., translationese n.
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1915 Morning Post 15 Apr. 2/4 The worst ‘journalese’ is more English than schoolmasters' ‘translatorese’.
1923 Outl. Lit. I. i. 39/1 The curiously matter-of-fact translation in prose..is an excellent tonic against the conventional ‘translatorese’.
1967 Times Lit. Suppl. 11 May 399/1 There is even a recognizable variant of pidgin English known as ‘translatorese’.
1982 I. Hamilton Robert Lowell (1983) xvi. 292 Critics might more damagingly have quoted the limp translatorese that crops up throughout Imitations.
2008 Independent Extra (Nexis) 6 Oct. 18 Matters aren't helped much by Alison Anderson's translation, which too often mimics the structure of French sentences, and slips into translatorese.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1915- stickin piece
- stickiness
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