translatese
(trɑːnsleɪˈtiːz, træns-, -nz-)
[f. translation + -ese.]
= translationese. Cf. translatorese.
| 1967 Listener 8 June 762/1 He..has couched it in the luke-warm translatese of one of his own more unurgent renderings. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Feb. 202/1 Paralysing woodenness (‘I am concerned to determine’), the dull thud of translatese (‘Here is the place to mention Pirandello finally’). 1979 Studies in Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 228 To the very last his Japanese did not get rid of a ‘translatese’ completely. |