translatorese
(trɑːnsˌleɪtəˈriːz, træns-, -nz-)
[f. translator + -ese.]
= translationese. Cf. translatese.
| 1915 Morning Post 15 Apr. 2/4 The worst ‘journalese’ is more English than schoolmasters' ‘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. |