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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
mistranslate .
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Examples
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The fundie translation, the New International Version deliberately mistranslates some passages to make the inerrant book seem less wacko.
McLeroy Loses Texas Board of Education Election - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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Parsi distorts history and willfully mistranslates the Iranian call for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map.’
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Parsi distorts history and willfully mistranslates the Iranian call for Israel to be ‘wiped off the map.’
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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Moreover, the novel claims, he cannot find "those words" because, in an obvious nod to centuries-old Protestant arguments, the Vulgate mistranslates the Scriptures.
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Moreover, the novel claims, he cannot find "those words" because, in an obvious nod to centuries-old Protestant arguments, the Vulgate mistranslates the Scriptures.
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Ford also mistranslates the pen name of Rule of Law Network's "reporter", Bei Dou, as "North Star".
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Ford also mistranslates the pen name of Rule of Law Network's "reporter", Bei Dou, as "North Star".
Archive 2007-06-01 2007
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This is not because is funny because it is the difficult extrapolation if some person of "intentionally mistranslates" to obtain smiles.
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This verb too has been the victim of Pallottino's ad hoc Latin-tainted whims since he mistranslates it as "'to act' in the sense of 'to exercise a magistracy'" (The Etruscans, p.232), a clear connection to Latin tenēre 'to hold' (in this case, 'to hold a position') even though he doesn't explicitly admit this in his book.
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This verb too has been the victim of Pallottino's ad hoc Latin-tainted whims since he mistranslates it as "'to act' in the sense of 'to exercise a magistracy'" (The Etruscans, p.232), a clear connection to Latin tenēre 'to hold' (in this case, 'to hold a position') even though he doesn't explicitly admit this in his book.
Archive 2007-03-01 2007
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