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Kamis, 2026-08-06 20:31:35

demonstrated by, for example, the King James Only movement. A famous mistranslation of a Biblical text is the rendering of the Hebrew word קֶרֶן (keren)...

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1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture
Minggu, 2026-05-10 06:21:04

1946 mistranslation that helped lead to a justification for Christian anti-gayness Baughan, Nikki (January 11, 2023). "'1946: The Mistranslation That...

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Xynoris
Jumat, 2025-10-31 15:54:47

who was created through a mistranslation. The saint was inadvertently fabricated by Caesar Baronius when he mistranslated the notes of John Chrysostom...

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We will bury you
Jumat, 2026-08-07 20:46:41

Press, 2007, p. 893 Dr. Stuart J. Birkby. "'We will bury you': How Mistranslation Heightened Cold War Tensions" (PDF). Galaxy. Archived from the original...

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Mokusatsu
Jumat, 2026-07-17 21:36:22

claiming that mokusatsu had been misunderstood by the Allies due to a mistranslation that interpreted the word to signify ignore rather than withhold comment...

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Malayan National Liberation Army
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 23:17:30

was also referred to as the Malayan Races Liberation Army owing to a mistranslation. In 1989 the Communist Party of Malaya signed a peace treaty with the...

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Backstroke of the West
Minggu, 2026-08-02 00:10:07

"squeaky-clean" film "weird and enjoyable". The bootleg is best known for the mistranslation of Darth Vader's climactic scream of "Nooooooo!", into "Do not want"...

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Methuselah
Senin, 2026-06-22 01:04:15

Genesis describes him as having died at such an advanced age: myth, mistranslation, or giving the impression that part of Genesis takes place in a very...

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Refried beans
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 03:53:58

(though they are fried only once). The English "refried beans" is a mistranslation, since the essence of "frijoles refritos" is the reheating and mashing...

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Mathematics
Senin, 2026-08-10 17:09:30

present one from about 1500 to 1800. This change has resulted in several mistranslations: For example, Saint Augustine's warning that Christians should beware...

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YouTube
Kamis, 2026-08-13 02:24:04

has initially been criticized for providing robotic-sounding dubs, mistranslations, and lack of an option for the user to disable auto-dubbed voices....

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Pandora's box
Senin, 2026-08-03 01:30:47

who was made from clay, and the clay jar which dispenses evils. The mistranslation of pithos is usually attributed to the 16th-century humanist Erasmus...

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Walrasian auction
Minggu, 2026-01-11 16:30:15

the Walrasian auction and Walrasian auctioneer resulted from Jaffé's mistranslation of the French word crieurs (criers) into auctioneers. Walker and van...

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Blood eagle
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 08:07:32

whether the rite was a literary invention of the original texts, a mistranslation of the texts themselves, or an authentic historical practice. The blood-eagle...

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Literal translation
Rabu, 2026-06-24 03:39:20

for example, by an interpreter). Literal translation often leads to mistranslation of idioms, which can be a serious problem for machine translation. The...

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Chinglish
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 06:34:40

Hangzhou, Zhejiang as a mistranslation for wénmíng lǚyóu ("tour civilizedly") Please stand behind a noodle is a mistranslation of "Please wait outside...

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Brasstown, Georgia
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 15:43:40

upper part of Brasstown Creek. The name "Brasstown" is the result of a mistranslation of its native Cherokee-language name Itse'yi, which correctly translates...

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Historical negationism
Senin, 2026-08-17 18:48:44

statistical series to support the given point of view, and deliberately mistranslating traditional or modern texts. Some countries, such as Germany, have criminalized...

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That's When I Reach for My Revolver
Senin, 2026-08-17 01:28:27

single 30 Century Man in 1992. The title is a reference to the often-mistranslated quotation: "When I hear the word 'culture', that's when I reach for...

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Criticism of Christianity
Kamis, 2026-08-13 00:44:53

ecumenism has helped bring together such communities, where in the past mistranslations of Christological Greek terms may have resulted in seemingly different...

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It's Over 9000!
Jumat, 2026-08-14 18:43:08

Craig Elvy from Screenrant claimed that this phrase is actually a mistranslation from the original Japanese anime. He noted that the Daizenshuu 7 book...

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Eshu
Rabu, 2026-08-05 03:03:08

academic works examining the mistranslation. The translation on Google Translate took up the same earlier mistranslations. This led to a number of online...

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Carl Jung
Minggu, 2026-08-02 19:02:57

and I never have been anti-Semitic, and no amount of misquotation, mistranslation, or rearrangement of what I have written can alter the record of my...

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Hashiwokakero
Selasa, 2026-06-23 05:49:02

published in English under the name Bridges or Chopsticks (based on a mistranslation: the hashi of the title, 橋, means bridge; hashi written with another...

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Criticism of Jehovah's Witnesses
Rabu, 2026-08-12 04:50:34

inconsistencies and making doctrinal reversals, making failed predictions, mistranslating the Bible, harshly treating former Jehovah's Witnesses, and leading...

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Christian universalism
Senin, 2026-08-03 12:58:05

annihilation of the wicked. Christian universalists point towards mistranslations of the Greek word αιών (aion – an epoch of time), as giving rise to...

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Schiaparelli (Martian crater)
Jumat, 2026-05-08 00:52:27

Schiaparelli, known for his observations of the Red Planet and his mistranslated term "canali". The name was adopted by IAU's Working Group for Planetary...

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Devereux
Rabu, 2026-08-12 15:48:43

and *Difery / *Dufery in Anglo-Norman, and St. Devereux is probably a mistranslation after the surname Devereux. The French variant is Devreux, which unlike...

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Philosophy in the Bedroom
Kamis, 2026-07-23 04:56:10

Philosophy in the Boudoir (French: La philosophie dans le boudoir), often mistranslated as Philosophy in the Bedroom, is a 1795 book by the Marquis de Sade...

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Martian canals
Jumat, 2026-06-19 07:12:04

linguistic artifact, arising from telescope limitations combined with the mistranslation of Schiaparelli’s term canali into English as “canals.” The Italian...

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Septuagint
Rabu, 2026-08-05 13:11:55

Job). For example, according to Heinrich Guggenheimer, intentional mistranslations in Deuteronomy 6 make reference to ancient sources of the Passover...

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Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 09:27:58

at least the 16th century. The phrase is evidently a word-for-word mistranslation of the English "What will be will be", as in Spanish, it would be "lo...

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Revised Standard Version
Jumat, 2026-08-14 05:19:24

the RSV — The Bible Under Fire. In 2022, the documentary 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture explains how the American committee behind the...

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Gemory
Rabu, 2026-08-05 06:45:20

in their edition of The Goetia of Dr Rudd, suggest that this was a mistranslation of the Latin cingitur which should have been translated "encircling...

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Re-education camp (Vietnam)
Senin, 2026-06-15 05:34:07

million. The high end estimate of 1 million is often attributed to a mistranslated statement by Prime Minister Pham Van Dong, and is considered excessive...

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Russia Germans
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 06:33:30

Russlanddeutsche – literally "Russia Germans" in German – is often mistranslated as "Russian-Germans." After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, many...

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Beowulf (hero)
Senin, 2026-04-06 13:07:05

Gregor Sarrazin [de] suggested that the name Beowulf derived from a mistranslation of Böðvarr with -varr interpreted as vargr meaning "wolf". However,...

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Aphrodite
Minggu, 2026-08-09 20:40:39

Philommeidḗs (φιλομμειδής), which means "smile-loving", but is sometimes mistranslated as "laughter-loving". This epithet occurs throughout both of the Homeric...

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Bomoh
Senin, 2026-08-03 14:29:35

and Borneo, whereas most Indonesians use the word dukun. It is often mistranslated into English as medicine man or witch doctor. In colloquial usage, the...

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San-nakji
Senin, 2026-07-13 06:51:53

nakji: South Koreans call Octopus minor, a small kind of octopus (often mistranslated as "baby octopus") nakji, while North Koreans call a squid nakji (nakchi...

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I am Error
Kamis, 2026-08-13 20:21:41

considered "one of the biggest mistranslations of early Nintendo games", even though it is not actually a mistranslation. Another incorrect notion about...

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Kung fu (term)
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 00:09:23

origin of this change can be attributed to the misunderstanding or mistranslation of the term through movie subtitles or dubbing. The term gongfu in Chinese...

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Mayonaise (song)
Rabu, 2026-06-17 12:10:57

in 1992 while touring Gish and noticed that the record company had mistranslated a lyric from Gish into a fan booklet as "mayonnaise seas". The band...

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Trepalle
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 01:34:08

The name of this village means "three balls" in Italian, possibly mistranslated from Trevalle, which means "three valleys". In fact, Trepalle is reachable...

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Shakib
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 10:08:25

piercing (brightness). — Third verse, Sura Aṭ-Ṭāriq The name is often mistranslated as "Star", due to being used as the adjective of "star" (Arabic: نجم...

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Eiji Takemoto
Jumat, 2026-07-17 02:06:38

born March 7, 1973) is a Japanese voice actor. His name is sometimes mistranslated and also sometimes credited as being Hidefumi Takemoto (竹本 英文, Takemoto...

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Jupiter, Florida
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 22:35:05

area during the 16th century, and the name "Jupiter" originated from a mistranslation of the Spanish name Jobe, derived from the Indigenous name Hobe, which...

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Rastafari
Minggu, 2026-08-09 01:12:11

Rastas believe that the Bible's true meaning has been warped through mistranslation and by deliberate manipulation by those seeking to deny black Africans...

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Eaters of the Dead
Kamis, 2026-06-18 01:28:30

manuscript. The narration makes several references to a possible change or mistranslation of the original story by later copiers. The story is told by several...

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Euro English
Rabu, 2026-07-01 20:20:10

the Legal English and Business English registers, and the increased mistranslation and coinage of technical, legal, international business, international...

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Gongxi Gongxi
Selasa, 2026-05-12 18:39:04

pinyin: Gōngxǐ gōngxǐ; lit. 'congratulations', 'congratulations'), mistranslated in public as "Wishing You Happiness and Prosperity" (which is the meaning...

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Philadelphia meeting of the Holy Land Foundation and Islamic Association of Palestine
Senin, 2026-08-17 02:17:35

trials. According to the defense, the transcripts had problems with mistranslation and did not always accurately identify who was speaking. According to...

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The Broken Spears
Jumat, 2025-06-20 23:19:25

xaxama[n]toc omitl. According to historian James Lockhart, this is a mistranslation resulting from confusion between the Nahuatl words mitl "arrow", "dart"...

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Lake of the Woods
Rabu, 2026-08-05 07:26:53

was so named from its wooded setting. However, it may have been a mistranslation of the Anishinaabe name. The earliest name we find the lake known by...

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Jin Horikawa
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 00:20:38

Yuji Ueda, Mitsuo Iwata, and Fumihiko Tachiki. His name is sometimes mistranslated as Hitoshi Horikawa. B'tX (1996) (B'TX) Black Cat (2005) (Igor Planter)...

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The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross
Jumat, 2026-07-03 02:05:41

Eden and Delight, Zealots and Muslims Treats the "Garden of Eden" as a mistranslated Sumerian mushroom name (GAN-NA'IMAN) and links the term to the Zealots...

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Horns of Moses
Senin, 2026-07-27 21:02:38

later replaced by rays of light. The idea comes from a translation, or mistranslation, of a Hebrew term in Jerome's Latin Vulgate Bible, and many later vernacular...

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The 100 season 7
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 21:03:20

upon closer examination, Jordan believes that the language has been mistranslated and it is a test to determine the fate of the human race, not a war...

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Cush (Bible)
Jumat, 2026-02-13 13:34:32

known as the Kingdom of Kush. Alternatively the biblical name may be a mistranslation of the Mesopotamian city of Kish. The form Kush appears in Egyptian...

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Necati Arabaci
Rabu, 2026-06-17 21:04:48

(indefinite imprisonment of extremely dangerous criminals). At trial, a mistranslation of some of the transcripts was detected, and Arabaci was acquitted....

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Summer Holiday (1963 film)
Minggu, 2026-08-09 16:48:42

taking them to her village for bread (they think). But there has been a mistranslation and the village thought Don said "bride" and a marriage ceremony is...

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Battle of Lugdunum
Senin, 2026-08-17 14:19:27

therefore 150,000 on each side, which he states to be a commonly accepted mistranslation of Cassius Dio's original language. Graham also analyses the possible...

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Sheng Long
Minggu, 2026-08-09 07:37:08

April Fools' prank in 1992. Conceived by editor Ken Williams due to a mistranslation suggesting the existence of a character named Sheng Long in the Capcom...

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No Trespassing (1975 film)
Kamis, 2026-06-11 19:16:22

during World War II. The film is known in English as No Trespassing!, a mistranslation of the title, which actually refers to a popular phrase used in a staunch...

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Katharine Bushnell
Minggu, 2026-02-22 21:09:07

of women, and she published God's Word to Women as a correction of mistranslation and misinterpretation of the Bible. As a missionary and a doctor, Bushnell...

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Confederate States of America
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 12:49:27

Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America"; Mann had mistranslated the address. In his report to Richmond, Mann claimed a great diplomatic...

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Onesie (jumpsuit)
Minggu, 2026-05-03 22:03:20

masks is bishoujo kigurumi, sometimes incorrectly referred to as the mistranslation artifact animegao-kigurumi (see animegao kigurumi). Fashion portal Siren...

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Kingdom of Ava
Jumat, 2025-11-14 23:02:05

Pagan. Scholars debate that the Shan ethnicity of Avan kings comes from mistranslation, particularly from a record of the Avan kings' ancestors ruling a Shan...

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Radical 51
Senin, 2026-07-27 17:48:30

fifth grade kanji. Fuck#Machine mistranslation Victor Mair, The Etiology and Elaboration of a Flagrant Mistranslation, Language Log, December 2007. "The...

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Sau (title)
Selasa, 2026-02-17 09:22:42

Sau (often mistranslated as “King”), refers to the role of spiritual leader in pre-Christian Rotuman society. The title was neither primogenitary nor...

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Submarine depth ratings
Selasa, 2026-08-18 00:39:13

water pumped out. In these cases, the "crush depth" is always either a mistranslated official "safe" or design depth (i.e. the test depth, or the maximum...

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Abduction of a Sabine Woman
Senin, 2026-02-23 23:31:31

Andromeda, Pierre Puget, 1684. Louvre, Paris This name is a "false friend" mistranslation of Latin: raptio, meaning kidnapping or abduction of a group the word...

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Tiny Fuppets
Kamis, 2025-02-20 10:25:02

Babies, and relies on irony and surrealism, as well as purposeful mistranslations for its humour. The show has been named "Most Bizarre Knockoff Ever"...

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Christianity and Judaism
Minggu, 2026-08-16 14:05:59

qualifications of the Messiah. #Biblical verses "referring" to Jesus are mistranslations. #Jewish belief is based on national revelation. Conservative Waxman...

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Lord's Prayer
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 23:41:33

7 June 2019. Sherwood, Harriet (8 December 2017). "Lead us not into mistranslation: pope wants Lord's Prayer changed". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 April...

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Cananga odorata
Selasa, 2026-08-11 22:41:49

Spanish spelling of the Tagalog name for the tree, ilang-ilang. A common mistranslation is 'flower of flowers'.[failed verification] In English, it is also...

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Homalomena
Senin, 2026-05-18 21:50:52

Homalomena have a strong smell of anise. The name derives apparently from a mistranslated Malayan vernacular name, translated as homalos, meaning flat, and mene...

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Grey triggerfish
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:44:12

goat", an allusion Gmelin did not explain, and it is likely to be a mistranslation of its Greek name dating to Aristotle, kápros, which means "boar" or...

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Mustafa Khattab
Senin, 2026-06-15 00:37:41

default translation available on quran.com. Khattab has stated that a mistranslation of the Arabic word dābbah was an early motivation to begin the project...

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Itztlacoliuhqui
Senin, 2025-05-26 17:32:49

"curved obsidian blade". J. Richard Andrews contends that this is a mistranslation and that the correct interpretation is "everything has become bent by...

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Moses
Selasa, 2026-08-18 00:13:23

The horns the sculptor included on Moses' head are the result of a mistranslation of the Hebrew Bible into the Latin Vulgate Bible with which Michelangelo...

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Luís Boa Morte
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:38:33

the Season for 2004–05 and got the nickname Dead Snake as a joking mistranslation of his surname. Boa Morte accused Everton forward Duncan Ferguson of...

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Ali Khamenei
Rabu, 2026-08-12 06:17:02

interview, Iran's then-Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Khamenei had been mistranslated, and his comments were taken out of context. Zarif added: "I have spoken...

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Original sin
Selasa, 2026-07-28 01:07:44

primary formulation of original sin was based on this mistranslation of Romans 5:12. This mistranslation would act as the basis for Augustine's complete development...

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Skyclad (Neopaganism)
Minggu, 2025-02-09 16:46:51

Chartowich argues that the ritual nudity of Wicca was based upon Leland's mistranslation of these lines by incorporating the clause "in your rites". Ritual nudity...

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Nanjing Massacre
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:45:24

the Rape of Nanjing Brook ed. 1999)[ISBN missing] Kajimoto, Masato "Mistranslations in Honda Katsuichi's the Nanjing Massacre" Sino-Japanese Studies, 13...

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Metanoia (theology)
Rabu, 2026-04-15 04:03:08

describes the translation of metanoia as repentance as "an extraordinary mistranslation". Walden believed the meaning of metanoia as a "transmutation" of consciousness...

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Lake Itasca
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 14:03:57

French Canadian and they named the lake Lac Labiche (Doe Lake, often mistranslated as Elk Lake). The name was later changed by Henry Schoolcraft to "Itasca"...

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The Bible and homosexuality
Kamis, 2026-08-13 00:54:16

scholars argue these verses may instead prohibit incest or have been mistranslated. The story of Sodom and Gomorrah has historically been linked to homosexuality...

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List of fictional Native Americans
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 21:46:21

other competitors' horses. Later, his name is revealed to have been mistranslated into English. His real name is Soundman due to his Stand, dubbed "In...

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Point Loma Nazarene University
Minggu, 2026-08-09 08:59:03

students." Reasons given were for censoring a screening of 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture and for tolerating hate speech and prejudicial...

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Danilo Restivo
Senin, 2026-08-17 16:56:20

was noted she was unable to translate certain words, which included mistranslating words, as well as not translating certain words, such as "masturbation"...

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Walter Sans Avoir
Rabu, 2026-05-27 19:02:22

the lord of Boissy-sans-Avoir in the Île-de-France. His name is often mistranslated as Walter the Penniless. While the words in his name do literally mean...

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Mu (mythical lost continent)
Senin, 2026-08-10 22:03:16

name "Mu" from Charles Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg, who, in 1864, mistranslated what was then called the Troano Codex (now called "Madrid Codex") using...

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The Black Cannon Incident
Rabu, 2026-03-04 17:02:22

to replace the engineer in his contact with a German specialist. A mistranslation by the inept replacement leads to a faulty test run and to financial...

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Zecharia Sitchin
Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:59:04

methodology, ignoring archaeological and historical evidence, and mistranslations of ancient texts as well as for incorrect astronomical and scientific...

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Erlking
Minggu, 2026-08-09 08:07:54

Danish elletræ "alder tree". It has generally been assumed that the mistranslation was the result of error, but it has also been suggested (Herder does...

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Bible
Minggu, 2026-08-09 00:00:16

authenticity is doubted). The inclusion of these texts, and the claim of some mistranslations, contributed to the Septuagint being seen as a "careless" translation...

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Singlish vocabulary
Minggu, 2026-08-02 16:13:07

大耳窿 daai3 ji5 lung1) Slang term for a loan shark. 2. Sometimes used to mistranslate Lee Hsien Loong. ah neh – (From Hokkien/Tamil. Tamil: அண்ணன் /aṇṇaṉ/)...

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Nontrinitarianism
Rabu, 2026-07-29 19:55:53

is a distinction between God and the Logos. Non-trinitarians claim a mistranslation of the second part of John 1:1 which, when literally translated word-for-word...

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Sinn Féin
Selasa, 2026-08-18 04:23:55

Irish for "Ourselves" or "We Ourselves", although it is frequently mistranslated as "ourselves alone" (from "Sinn Féin Amháin", an early-20th-century...

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Unicorn
Senin, 2026-07-27 05:05:50

the Chinese qilin. The Quẻ Ly of Vietnamese myth, similarly sometimes mistranslated "unicorn" is a symbol of wealth and prosperity that made its first appearance...

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Hohokam
Minggu, 2026-07-19 12:57:45

the existing O'odham term for the culture, huhu-kam, in its common mistranslation as "all used up" or "those who are gone", to classify the remains that...

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Szlachta
Kamis, 2026-08-06 02:10:06

old Commonwealth. In the past, a misconception sometimes led to the mistranslation of "szlachta" as "gentry" rather than "nobility". This mistaken practice...

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Old Norse orthography
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:03:52

The orthography of the Old Norse language was diverse, being written in both Runic and Latin alphabets, with many spelling conventions, variant letterforms...

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An Sylvia
Minggu, 2026-06-07 08:34:12

Translating Song: Lyrics and Texts argues that this is not simply a mistranslation as is often stated, but an intelligent trade-off by Bauernfeld to preserve...

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List of Latin phrases (S)
Senin, 2026-06-29 02:03:02

The Phantom. The phrase actually violates Latin grammar because of a mistranslation from English, as the preposition contra takes the accusative case. The...

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The Talmud Unmasked
Senin, 2026-07-20 12:09:34

and wrongly translated. Stephen E. Atkins notes that in addition to mistranslation, many are taken out of context. Edmund Levin observes that Pranaitis...

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Lusus
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 11:34:52

century BC). The entire character of Lusus in fact seems to derive from a mistranslation of an expression in Pliny's Naturalis Historia. Pliny writes: "M. Varro...

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Henny Penny
Selasa, 2026-08-11 09:38:44

and she gaed, and she gaed" is retained and the cause of panic is mistranslated as "the clouds are falling". Benjamin Thorpe's translation of Thiele's...

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Colossus of Nero
Selasa, 2026-07-21 13:30:38

Rome will fall, when Rome falls, so falls the world. This is often mistranslated to refer to the Colosseum rather than the Colossus (as in, for instance...

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The Great Pumpkin (film)
Rabu, 2026-03-04 08:58:57

however, the phrase has pop culture cachet from being an intentional mistranslation of "The Great Pumpkin" from the comic strip, Peanuts. Valentina, nicknamed...

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14th Dalai Lama
Selasa, 2026-08-11 17:40:49

suggested that the Dalai Lama's limited English proficiency led him to mistranslate a Tibetan expression that means "eat my tongue." Germano said, "The context...

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Volkswagen emissions scandal
Senin, 2026-08-17 12:08:50

compensate European drivers as well, blamed the confusion on "a slight mistranslation". E.U. commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska said Volkswagen was treating...

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Police
Minggu, 2026-08-09 23:20:47

pieces of the practice of Polizeiwissenschaft. However, this may be a mistranslation of Foucault's own work since the actual source of Magdalene Humpert...

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Invitation to the Dance (Weber)
Minggu, 2026-04-12 06:07:55

Berlioz. It is sometimes called Invitation to the Waltz, but this is a mistranslation of the original. The autograph manuscript of the work is preserved in...

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Unit of action
Jumat, 2025-12-26 23:46:01

bit has become mainstream in American method acting. This historic mistranslation may have helped spawn the common metaphor of the dramatic script as...

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Circassian languages
Jumat, 2026-07-03 20:58:15

Republic of Adygea). The term адыгейский, meaning Adygean, has thus been mistranslated to English as "Adyghe language". The terms Circassian and Cherkess are...

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Death erection
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 07:22:15

the sky). This understanding of the anecdote, however, is based on a mistranslation of the Arabic source by John Gagnier, who translated Abulfeda's Life...

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Passiflora
Selasa, 2026-07-14 13:12:47

 826. Marzell (1927) "Christ's flower" is a mistranslation of Marzell (1927) "Martyr" is a mistranslation of Marzell (1927) Muttergottes-Schuzchen (or...

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Loanword
Minggu, 2026-08-16 21:38:07

given below. The phrase "foreign word" used in the image below is a mistranslation of the German Fremdwort, which refers to loanwords whose pronunciation...

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Biblical Hebrew
Selasa, 2026-08-18 05:11:26

is known as pataḥ furtivum, literally 'stolen pataḥ' and perhaps a mistranslation of Hebrew פתח גנובה ('pataḥ of the stolen [letter]'), as if אֵ were...

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Henry J. Heinz
Kamis, 2026-06-25 02:48:56

has erroneously written that Anna's father was a pastor, based on a mistranslation of the German word "Kirchenältester" which appears before Anna's father's...

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Dirty Hungarian Phrasebook
Jumat, 2026-06-26 03:41:10

Your Pick!). After the prosecutor reads some samples from the book (a mistranslation for "Can you direct me to the station?" actually reads "Please fondle...

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Anthropocentrism
Minggu, 2026-08-09 13:05:48

recently some have found it controversial, viewing it as possibly a mistranslation from the Hebrew. However an argument can be made that the Bible actually...

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Tony Lazzeri
Minggu, 2026-01-18 07:30:17

1933. He was nicknamed "Poosh 'Em Up" by Italian-speaking fans, from a mistranslation of an Italian phrase meaning to "hit it out" (hit a home run). Lazzeri...

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Beatitudes
Senin, 2026-08-10 05:09:38

something good in its own right and thus deserving of blessing. ...It is a mistranslation driven by the necessity to make sense of something one just does not...

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Genocide in the Hebrew Bible
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 07:51:14

way to reject (4), stating that the commanding of genocide could be a mistranslation, as the word often translated to "utterly destroying", herem, can also...

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Gran Paradiso
Kamis, 2026-08-13 10:56:44

Italian toponym Gran Paradiso derives, via the French Grand Paradis, as a mistranslation from the Aosta Valley patois Granta Parey, which originally means 'large...

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Augustine of Hippo
Minggu, 2026-08-16 14:01:38

(Augustine's term "mathematici", meaning "astrologers", is sometimes mistranslated as "mathematicians".) According to Augustine, they were not genuine...

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Christian views on homosexuality
Selasa, 2026-08-11 16:20:22

dating app for LGBTQ+ Christians. In 2022, the documentary 1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture explains how the American committee behind the...

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King James Version
Minggu, 2026-08-09 23:26:19

philosophy and ongoing lexical uncertainty rather than demonstrable mistranslation. In the case of the Hebrew: רְאֵם, romanized: Re'em, the precise referent...

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Call a spade a spade
Jumat, 2026-04-17 03:20:39

word "shovel" may have been a conscious, dramatic choice rather than a mistranslation. The phrase was introduced to English in 1542 in Nicolas Udall's translation...

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Address Unknown (novel)
Kamis, 2026-06-11 03:41:36

was re-issued again in Ecco Press in 2021. The title of the book is a mistranslation of the German Adressat unbekannt. Adressat is more equivalent to addressee...

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Canes Venatici
Minggu, 2026-08-16 20:18:17

identification of these stars with the dogs of Boötes arose through a mistranslation: some of Boötes's stars were traditionally described as representing...

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Mount Judi
Minggu, 2026-08-16 03:22:16

11 January 2023. Sawma, Gabriel (2006). The Qur'an, Misinterpreted, Mistranslated, and Misread: The Aramaic Language of the Qur'an. Gabriel Sawma....

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Polearm
Minggu, 2026-08-09 14:36:50

original descriptions, changes in weapons or nomenclature through time, mistranslation of terms, and the well-meaning inventiveness of later experts. For example...

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Willy Ramirez case
Kamis, 2026-08-06 15:00:25

Willy Ramirez as having suffered a drug overdose, in part due to a mistranslation between English and Spanish. Ramirez had actually suffered a intracerebral...

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Kinryū Arimoto
Minggu, 2026-08-16 07:24:01

black belt rank of shodan. Though his birth name was Yoshitaka, a kanji mistranslation led to his name being read as Kinryū, which stuck as his stage name...

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Maize
Selasa, 2026-08-11 23:48:04

that "[t]o say the word corn is to plunge into the tragi-farcical mistranslations of language and history". Similar to the British usage, the Spanish...

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Washi
Rabu, 2026-07-08 10:05:27

application of Mino washi The traditional Japanese paper washi is often mistranslated or mislabeled in English as “rice paper,” a term that has caused misunderstanding...

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Toad in the hole
Selasa, 2026-07-14 11:32:55

(re-cooked meat in the English style) or rospo nella tana, which was mistranslated as "toad in the bole". In this recipe from the first modern Italian...

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Yellow Bird (Walla Walla leader)
Jumat, 2026-05-29 05:23:25

preceding chief Tumatapum. His name meant Yellow Bird, but it was often mistranslated as Yellow Serpent by Europeans. While residing at Fort Hall, Jason Lee...

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Education in Germany
Senin, 2026-08-17 23:32:10

which in turn usually allows vocational training. It's common to find mistranslations that say that this education is professional, while it is more accurately...

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Anunnaki
Minggu, 2026-07-19 14:48:11

Sumerian texts by quoting them out of context, truncating quotations, and mistranslating Sumerian words to give them radically different meanings from their...

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Nazarene (title)
Selasa, 2026-06-16 22:11:29

Nazareth is debated, with some analyzing "Nazarene" or "Nazorean" as mistranslations of a pre-Christian religious title without a geographic association...

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Linothorax
Senin, 2026-04-20 00:02:28

theory that it was made of layers of linen glued together comes from a mistranslation of a summary of a description of medieval armour in 1869. By the late...

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Obol (coin)
Senin, 2026-05-04 22:56:54

soul through several bodies the author uses a quotation of Luke 12:59, mistranslated as "no one will be released from prison until he has paid the last obolus"...

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Historian
Selasa, 2026-08-11 07:55:18

historian must clearly indicate any speculation; The historian must not mistranslate documents or mislead by omitting parts of documents; The historian must...

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Concert at SEA
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 00:21:59

initiated by the popular Dutch band BLØF. The name of the festival is a mistranslation of the Dutch phrase aan zee meaning by the sea / at the seaside. The...

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Vikings
Senin, 2026-08-17 22:58:08

it was used as a synonym, while Eric Christiansen avers that it is a mistranslation made at the insistence of the publisher. The word wicing does not occur...

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Children of Lir
Rabu, 2026-07-22 15:12:54

should properly be "The Children of Lear", Lir being a genitive, but the mistranslation has become culturally embedded. In post 18th-century scholarship, the...

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Rose of Sharon
Senin, 2026-08-17 16:42:00

committee of the New Revised Standard Version, "rose of Sharon" is a mistranslation of a more general Hebrew word for crocus.[citation needed] Etymologists...

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Luther Bible
Rabu, 2026-07-29 11:40:44

The Luther Bible (German: Lutherbibel) is a German language Bible translation by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther. A New Testament translation by...

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Characters of the Dead or Alive series
Kamis, 2026-07-23 22:10:07

has fulfilled her expectations. Prior to DOA Ultimate, her name was mistranslated as Rolande. Maria (マリア, Maria) is Helena Douglas's mother, former mistress...

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Capleton
Jumat, 2026-06-26 11:40:25

manager has argued that some of the controversial lyrics have been mistranslated and do not actually refer to gays. Capleton himself has admitted that...

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Pandora
Senin, 2026-07-27 18:01:09

as a daughter-in-law of Noah in the alternative flood narrative. The mistranslation of pithos, a large storage jar, as "box" is usually attributed to the...

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Dak-ttongjip
Rabu, 2026-02-25 02:21:59

jip can be (mistakenly) parsed as "waste" and "house" respectively, mistranslations such as "chicken poo house" or "chicken asshole house" are not uncommon...

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Rosenholz files
Minggu, 2025-10-19 08:21:42

(Federal Cross of Merit). After being returned, the files were checked for mistranslation and other errors by the Stasi Records Agency; since June 2003, the files...

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Universalism
Minggu, 2026-06-28 23:27:46

and attribute the origin of the idea of hell as eternal punishment to mistranslation. They also appeal to many texts of Scripture to argue that the concept...

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Siva Tau
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 14:53:28

Usos: Battle-ready". WWE. Retrieved 27 March 2012. "Google Translate mistranslates new Shepherds Reign single". Māori Television. Manu Samoa Supporters...

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Henrik Ibsen
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 02:37:34

A speech given to the Norwegian Women's Rights League is sometimes mistranslated as saying he was a "humanist and not a feminist", although in context...

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Kural
Senin, 2026-06-15 10:07:20

Christian missionary Father Beschi, for instance, contains several such mistranslations. According to V. Ramasamy, "Beschi is purposely distorting the message...

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Kali's Child
Jumat, 2026-05-22 23:09:26

Critics have argued that the book's conclusions were arrived at through mistranslation of Bengali, misunderstanding of tantra, and misuse of psychoanalysis...

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Simon the Zealot
Senin, 2026-08-03 03:16:05

more controversial. John P. Meier argues that the term "Zealot" is a mistranslation and in the context of the Gospels means "zealous" or "religious" (in...

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Altes Land
Selasa, 2024-08-20 21:23:40

is Altes Land, which means "old country". However, Altes Land is a mistranslation of the original Low Saxon Olland, which originally had nothing to do...

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Seraph
Minggu, 2026-08-02 22:26:41

VII, there is a major boss named "Safer Sephiroth", which may be a mistranslation of "Seraph Sephiroth". In the video game Doom (2016), it is mentioned...

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The Joy Luck Club (film)
Jumat, 2026-08-14 14:43:34

cannot understand the twins' letter written in Chinese; Lindo purposely mistranslates the letter, claiming the twins are aware of Suyuan's death and the existence...

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Isabeau of Bavaria
Selasa, 2026-06-16 20:25:41

Tracy Adams speculates that the depiction of obesity might stem from a mistranslation saying the Queen bore a heavy burden, which Adams believes refers to...

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Novum Instrumentum omne
Selasa, 2026-05-26 17:57:01

Novum Instrumentum Omne, later titled Novum Testamentum Omne, was a series of bilingual Latin-Greek New Testaments with substantial scholarly annotations...

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Mark & Olly: Living with the Tribes
Rabu, 2026-08-05 12:38:44

2011, the third season of the series was accused of faking scenes and mistranslating interviews to portray the Machiguenga tribe negatively. Living with...

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Neapolitan ragù
Minggu, 2026-08-16 12:00:04

originated is unclear; the food writer Ian MacAllen describes it as a mistranslation of ragù. Schwartz 1998, pp. 44, 52–53. Cesari 2022, p. 175. Latini 1692...

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Inul Daratista
Jumat, 2026-08-14 13:01:54

2017. This is the article cited by Weintraub2008 as containing the mistranslation Weintraub, Andrew N. (2008). "'Dance Drills, Faith Spills': Islam, Body...

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Murder of Yara Gambirasio
Minggu, 2026-07-26 12:48:56

young Moroccan man, Mohamed Fikri, was wrongfully arrested due to a mistranslation of his words. The investigation found 11 different DNA traces on the...

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Bootleg games
Selasa, 2026-07-14 07:44:05

seemingly bizarre choices in game design, poor graphics and glitches, mistranslations and blatant disregard for copyright, but have also garnered a cult...

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Varangian Guard
Senin, 2026-08-03 14:33:27

barbarians", pelekyphoroi barbaroi, rather than as Varangians). However, a mistranslation of the Greek text has led some to refer to the weapon as a rhomphaia...

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Spelt
Selasa, 2026-07-07 10:25:55

spelt", in French petit épeautre). This confusion may arise either from mistranslation of words found in other languages that can denote hulled wheat in general...

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Gaza Health Ministry
Minggu, 2026-08-09 03:01:38

Zaher Al Wahaidi in August 2024. He said 'reliable media sources' was a mistranslation, they don't depend on the press. He said all functional hospitals were...

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Sultanate of Women
Jumat, 2026-08-14 07:01:44

mistakenly assumed to be of Russian descent, probably because of a mistranslation of her name, and European visitors treated her as Russian. Her ancestry...

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Snapple
Jumat, 2026-07-31 22:24:47

ISBN 978-0-14-133822-4, chapter The Land of Egypt "Glass Slippers Mistranslations". snopes.com. 31 December 1998. Retrieved 6 July 2015. "God's Number...

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Lutheranism
Kamis, 2026-08-13 03:22:59

because it has the same meaning as the original Hebrew and Greek. A mistranslation is not God's word, and no human authority can invest it with divine...

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Naasa Hablood
Minggu, 2026-08-16 05:40:52

word habar means 'an older woman; a mother', the name has often been mistranslated as Virgin's Breasts or Girl's Breasts. Breast-shaped hills Somaliland...

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Sligo
Senin, 2026-08-10 20:42:51

the second ford was between and Balladrehid and Ballisodare. Through mistranslation Sli da Atha came to be pronounced Slidatha and then Sligeach. See O'Rourke's...

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La Casa Pacifica
Jumat, 2026-04-10 21:12:55

Clemente, California, June 23, 1973. It may also be interpreted as a mistranslation of "Pacific (Ocean) House". "Nixon's Western White House for sale at...

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Italian wedding soup
Selasa, 2026-04-07 20:23:53

and diners in the United States. The name wedding soup comes from a mistranslation of the Italian minestra maritata, which translates as 'married soup'...

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Jojo Rabbit
Minggu, 2026-08-16 08:18:56

Downfall, which had been a popular asset for memes, wherein subtitles would mistranslate the dialogue to something humorous, mostly known as the Angry Hitler...

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Shannon (given name)
Senin, 2026-07-06 13:22:27

the suffix ain indicates a diminutive in Irish, the name is sometimes mistranslated as 'little wise one', but means 'possessor of wisdom'. Some derive the...

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John 3:16
Rabu, 2026-08-05 08:12:11

thus—shows a comparison from John 3:15. This is not a quantity but was mistranslated as such in most modern translations (for instance, in the Amplified...

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Noble lie
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 13:36:32

classical scholars including Francis Cornford argued that "noble lie" was a mistranslation, Allan Bloom argued for a literal translation and interpretation of...

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Yakov Smirnoff
Rabu, 2026-07-08 11:32:29

United States, he was almost sent back to the USSR when his interpreter mistranslated his occupation—comedian—as "party organizer", which immigration authorities...

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Jack Parsons
Jumat, 2026-08-14 10:41:11

Thelemic motto of Thelema Obtenteum Proedero Amoris Nuptiae, a Latin mistranslation of "The establishment of Thelema through the rituals of love". The initials...

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Reformation
Minggu, 2026-08-02 08:51:06

work. The Vulgate text of Exodus 34 is a well known case of Jerome's mistranslations: the Hebrew text writes of Moses's shining face when narrating the...

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All your base are belong to us
Kamis, 2026-07-16 04:30:04

"All your base are belong to us" is an Internet meme based on a poorly translated phrase from the opening cutscene of the Japanese video game Zero Wing...

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Adagia
Minggu, 2026-02-15 22:47:18

2022). "'A Scorneful Image of this Present World': Translating and Mistranslating Erasmus's Words in Henrician England". Critical Survey. 34 (3): 100–122...

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Ahmad ibn Fadlan
Sabtu, 2026-06-27 04:38:24

favorable, although it has been attributed to a possibly intentional mistranslation with the original texts being more in line with Ibn Fadlan's narrative...

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Kaidu
Rabu, 2026-06-10 00:53:33

Kublai, who established the Yuan dynasty. Medieval chroniclers often mistranslated Kadan as Kaidu, mistakenly placing Kaidu at the Battle of Legnica. Kadan...

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Balki Bartokomous
Kamis, 2026-06-18 03:42:41

United States to see Balki become an American citizen (though due to a mistranslation on Larry's part, Balki's mother originally thinks she is coming to see...

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Kama Sutra
Kamis, 2026-07-23 22:03:32

to these words in the western imagination. The problems with Burton mistranslation are many, states Doniger. First, the text "simply does not say what...

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Draža Mihailović
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 18:13:50

Italians. While defenders of Mihailović have argued that Bailey had mistranslated the speech, and may have even done so intentionally, the effect on the...

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Crossbow
Senin, 2026-08-10 21:45:06

Peterson, prod came into usage in the 19th century as a result of mistranslating rodd in a 16th-century list of crossbow effects. The stock (a modern...

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Kingdom of Italy
Selasa, 2026-08-11 06:56:40

Italy to conduct foreign affairs. This happened presumably due to the mistranslation of a verb, which formed a permissive clause in Amharic and a mandatory...

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Outline of Jewish law
Minggu, 2026-06-28 04:45:34

page 734 A literal translation is "The book of love" Leperacy is a mistranslation. Halacha Mishpat Ivri Jewish ethics Jewish law at Wikipedia's sister...

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Diamond Hill
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:19:54

accepted version states that the English name for this area was a simple mistranslation, for in Cantonese, the word "鑽石" can mean either "diamonds" or "to drill...

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Trojan script
Selasa, 2025-12-23 17:47:55

translations were soon revealed as erroneous; they had been based on a mistranslation of the Cypriot script. British Assyriologist Archibald Sayce attempted...

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Slipper
Selasa, 2026-06-30 16:09:23

Glass Slipper"). For some years it was debated that this detail was a mistranslation and that the slippers in the story were instead made of fur (French:...

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Grande Armée
Senin, 2026-08-03 00:56:47

Le Chasseur de la Garde (Chasseur of the Guard, often mistranslated as The Charging Chasseur), 1812, by Théodore Géricault...

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Witch of Agnesi
Kamis, 2026-02-12 14:12:56

about the curve suggest slightly different guesses how exactly this mistranslation happened. Struik mentions that: The word [versiera] is derived from...

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The Eagle (TV series)
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:09:18

Title (Danish) First Airdate 9 Cronus 1 mistranslated as Chronos 1 Kronos 1 9 October 2005 10 Cronus 2 mistranslated as Chronos 2 Kronos 2 16 October 2005...

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Jute
Jumat, 2026-07-31 20:36:16

translation of the Book of Job (chapter 30, verse 4), in the Hebrew Bible, mistranslates the word מלוח maluaḥ, which means Atriplex as "mallow", which in turn...

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Riku (Kingdom Hearts)
Rabu, 2026-07-15 20:30:11

November 18, 2025. Philips, Rebbeca (29 January 2025). "Kingdom Hearts 3's Mistranslation Of "Taisetsu Na Hito" Is A Disservice To Riku". Retrieved January 30...

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New Cambridge Paragraph Bible
Jumat, 2026-07-24 09:44:04

added) on the basis of the belief that it was a printer's error or a mistranslation, as it is commonly known that hulizō means "to filter". In Hebrews 10:23's...

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Quaestiones Disputatae de Veritate
Sabtu, 2025-07-12 18:33:15

her with the work, and criticized it in a letter to her in 1934 as a mistranslation that mis-framed Aquinas in phenomenological terms. Stein's reply to...

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Party Animals (video game)
Selasa, 2026-06-30 10:08:53

contradicted the game's description. The developers responded that a mistranslation resulted in the erroneous description for the game. During the Steam...

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Kanei Uechi
Jumat, 2026-07-10 05:38:05

pronunciation: "Shu Shiwa." Originally known as "Kanshabu" based on earlier mistranslation of his name into Japanese as "Shu Shabu." This kata includes many of...

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Fist of Legend
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 05:26:14

release by Miramax and Buena Vista Distribution contains four specific mistranslations that drastically alter the meaning of the film as a whole. Before Chen...

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Holy of Holies
Selasa, 2026-06-16 10:30:09

debir. The Hebrew word debir, rendered 'oracle' in the versions, is a mistranslation based on a false etymology. The term itself signifies only the back...

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List of Michelin-starred restaurants in South Korea
Jumat, 2026-07-10 05:52:19

be 34 errors, including typos, the inclusion of closed restaurants, mistranslations, and issues with whether or not the restaurants had terraces. Journalist...

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Megalopolis
Jumat, 2026-06-19 05:56:22

distributed in a certain region". In an older standard, the term was mistranslated as "agglomeration". In 2019, National Development and Reform Commission...

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Quran translations into Hebrew
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 02:50:22

subject of a viral misinformation story, implying that Saudi Arabia had mistranslated the Quran to appease Israeli interests. 2019: A translation was published...

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Exponentiation
Minggu, 2026-07-19 10:12:08

put forth". The term power (Latin: potentia, potestas, dignitas) is a mistranslation of the ancient Greek δύναμις (dúnamis, here: "amplification") used by...

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Molossian hound
Minggu, 2026-08-09 20:05:24

they call "molossoid". This confusion has been theorised to be due to mistranslations of ancient texts and assumptions based solely on size. List of dog...

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The Dreaming
Minggu, 2026-08-16 19:00:14

and Gillen's "Dreamtime" translation, concluding: "Dreamtime" was a mistranslation based on an etymological connection between "a dream" and "Altjira"...

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Tasmanian emu
Jumat, 2026-05-15 01:55:59

Tasmania doesn't have goannas, therefore suggesting that this was a mistranslation of "gonanner", an Aboriginal word for emu. There are specimens of the...

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Thomas De Quincey
Kamis, 2026-07-16 09:35:46

Quincey's Autobiographic Sketches in support of his 1881 treatise about the mistranslation of the word metanoia into "repent" by most English translations of the...

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The Unforgettable Year 1919
Jumat, 2026-06-19 08:28:41

1941.". It describes the attack on the Krasnaya Gorka fort. Through mistranslation the movement is sometimes referred to as "The Attack on Beautiful Gorky"...

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Príncipe
Rabu, 2026-07-22 08:03:39

the harbour of Principe, from a 1727 engraving: the accompanying text mistranslates the island's name as 'Princess' and refers to it as being, very Woody...

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Corbenic
Kamis, 2026-04-30 23:57:45

French le corps) and 'the horn' (Modern French la corne), leading to the mistranslation, by Christian authors, of li cors beneit as the blessed body - the latter...

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History of Sinn Féin
Sabtu, 2026-07-11 13:28:26

Sinn Féin ("We Ourselves", often mistranslated as "Ourselves Alone") is the name of an Irish political party founded in 1905 by Arthur Griffith. It became...

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Lost lands
Jumat, 2026-08-07 07:46:55

Mu, a name which he got from Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg’s mistranslation of the Madrid Codex. James Churchward expanded on this idea in his work...

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5S (methodology)
Minggu, 2026-07-12 01:49:55

Although commonly rendered as 'standardize' in the 5S framework, this is a mistranslation of Seiketsu, which actually means 'to maintain hygiene and cleanliness'...

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Fringe theories about the Shroud of Turin
Senin, 2026-08-17 17:55:39

apparent miracle of the cloth raising itself may be accounted for as a mistranslation: the French impersonal passive takes the form of a reflexive verb. Thus...

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Alfred Tarski
Senin, 2026-07-13 01:10:09

the German and Polish versions of the paper and corrects a number of mistranslations in Tarski (1983). This publication set out the modern model-theoretic...

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P. S. Krøyer's paintings of Marie
Kamis, 2025-07-17 12:00:04

keen photographer. The English title of the painting is certainly a mistranslation from the Danish Ved frokosten. Kunstneren, hans hustru og forfatteren...

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A Princess of Mars
Minggu, 2026-08-02 07:03:29

features on Mars which he called canali (Italian for "channels"). This was mistranslated into English as "canals" which, being artificial watercourses, fueled...

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David Irving
Senin, 2026-08-17 00:26:03

quoted Evans further: Irving ... had deliberately distorted and wilfully mistranslated documents, consciously used discredited testimony and falsified historical...

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Parkinsonia aculeata
Minggu, 2025-11-16 03:14:51

thorny stem of this plant. The name "Jerusalem thorn" stems from a mistranslation of the Spanish/Portuguese word girasol ('turning toward the sun'). Parkinsonia...

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Virgin birth of Jesus
Minggu, 2026-07-26 09:55:25

signifies a girl of childbearing age without reference to virginity. This mistranslation gave the author of Matthew the opportunity to interpret Jesus as the...

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New World Order conspiracy theory
Minggu, 2026-08-02 14:39:49

of America is an independent nation-state; conspiracy theorists often mistranslate it as "New World Order". Although the European continental branch of...

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Translation (biology)
Senin, 2026-07-13 10:18:06

inappropriate amino acids at the respective position in the protein. This "mistranslation" of the genetic code naturally occurs at low levels in most organisms...

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Development of Final Fantasy XV
Jumat, 2026-08-07 20:02:16

team could complete Final Fantasy XIII. This was later clarified as a mistranslation, with the actual situation being that developers from the Versus XIII...

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Kritosaurus
Senin, 2025-08-25 17:45:33

arrangement of the cheek bones in an incomplete type skull), but is often mistranslated as "noble lizard" in reference to the presumed "Roman nose" (in the...

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Al-Ahli Arab Hospital
Jumat, 2026-07-03 03:12:35

killed according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM), but this was a mistranslation of a report that had mentioned over 500 total victims, including injured...

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Samatha-vipassanā
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 01:30:35

inculcation of awareness, such as sati, sampajāno, and upekkhā, are mistranslated or understood as particular factors of meditative states, whereas they...

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Togodumnus
Jumat, 2026-05-29 11:17:02

the Thames: that the Greek word φθαρεντὸς, "perished", may be Dio's mistranslation of a more ambiguous Latin word, amisso, "lost", in one of his hypothetical...

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Ranni the Witch
Selasa, 2026-07-14 11:13:03

whether they were justified. Fletcher Varnson of Screen Rant criticized a mistranslation in the game as mischaracterizing Ranni, causing her to appear more malevolent...

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Hugo Savinovich
Selasa, 2026-08-18 01:40:38

retracted the statement and apologized to Kross, stating that there was a mistranslation of his words into English. However, video of the interview disputed...

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Old Testament messianic prophecies quoted in the New Testament
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 06:58:46

that these passages are not messianic prophecies and are based on mistranslations or misunderstanding of the Hebrew texts. When Israel was a child, I...

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Matthew 5:8
Selasa, 2026-02-24 04:34:41

Sermon on the Mount. Hill speculates that the verse could actually be a mistranslation of Isaiah 61:1, and should have read "only the contrite will see God"...

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European Southern Observatory
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 21:02:57

Cross), and Yepun (Evening Star), with the latter having been originally mistranslated as "Sirius", instead of "Venus". Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope...

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Avidyā (Hinduism)
Kamis, 2026-05-07 14:35:04

philosophies is translated as "ignorance", states Alex Wayman, this is a mistranslation because Avidya means more than ignorance. He suggests the term "unwisdom"...

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Hawiye
Minggu, 2026-08-16 00:58:07

also listed as a group of tribes from Bale and a commonly Ethiopian mistranslation of the Coptic Christian synaxarium of Alexandria's "Muslim badawī (bedouin/nomadic...

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List of Transformers animated series
Selasa, 2026-08-18 03:33:25

dub". The dub is, however, infamous for its poor quality, full of mistranslations and incorrect names, clearly the work of a small group of individuals...

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Rum River
Kamis, 2026-08-06 05:35:09

Wakpa waḳaŋ reflecting the current name. The current English name is a mistranslation of the one given to it by the Mdewakanton Dakota (see Dakota) tribe...

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Hammer Hill (Hong Kong)
Minggu, 2026-08-16 08:26:06

Hong Kong. The Chinese name of the hill, named by the British, was mistranslated as the "Axe Hill". Geography of Hong Kong List of mountains, peaks and...

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Astral body
Rabu, 2026-07-01 10:40:27

a soul body [Gr. "soma" – body and "psuchicon" – psu(y)che – soul; mistranslated "natural body"]; it is raised a spiritual body (...)" Samael Aun Weor...

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He who sings, prays twice
Kamis, 2026-07-30 03:17:09

praises joyfully" and that the modern-day expression must've become mistranslated and shortened over time. Others have come to this same conclusion, with...

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History of crossbows
Minggu, 2026-08-09 02:09:22

the invention of the repeating crossbow, this is actually due to a mistranslation confusing it with the multiple bolt crossbow. The source actually says...

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Adam's apple
Jumat, 2026-08-14 23:40:57

that the Latin phrase pomum Adami (literally: 'Adam's apple') was a mistranslation of the Hebrew "tappuach ha adam", meaning "male bump". The confusion...

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Basil of Caesarea
Kamis, 2026-08-06 01:37:21

ascetic tendencies are exhibited in the Moralia and Asketika (sometimes mistranslated as Rules of St. Basil), ethical manuals for use in the world and the...

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Depeche Mode
Senin, 2026-08-03 23:26:21

When explaining the choice for the new name, which was taken from a mistranslation of the name of French fashion magazine Dépêche Mode, Gore said, "It...

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History of Malta
Senin, 2026-08-10 14:24:53

based on a line of a Byzantine poem (which later appeared to have been mistranslated). Wettinger subsequently reaffirmed his thesis, based on sources from...

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Prophecy
Senin, 2026-08-17 20:27:28

Nostradamus's quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless...

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Ukupseni
Minggu, 2026-04-26 14:45:00

beach' in English, or playa chica in Spanish, thus Playón Chico is a mistranslation, which means roughly 'Little Big Beach'. Ukupseni is a small island...

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Rusko Selo
Selasa, 2026-05-05 15:09:38

Rusyns community settled there in 1740s. The village is also often mistranslated as Russian Village due to the archaic homonyms used as the possessive...

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Tafl games
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 22:22:41

tafl games strongly favor the defenders. This imbalance results from a mistranslation of Linnaeus' rules for tablut, a Sámi tafl game from the 1700s, which...

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Tyropoeon Valley
Senin, 2026-04-20 05:56:17

Josephus, των τυροποιων (tōn tyropoiōn), possibly arose as an ancient mistranslation from Hebrew to the Greek of Josephus's book[dubious – discuss]; Semitic...

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Inner Mongolia
Senin, 2026-08-10 19:59:54

9–16. doi:10.3130/jaabe.15.9. Note that the article, in an evident mistranslation from Chinese, reports 30 million Tibetan Buddhists in Inner Mongolia...

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Uechi-Ryū
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 14:53:24

Japanese pronunciation. Originally known as "Kanshabu" based on earlier mistranslation of Zhou Zihe's name into Japanese as "Shu Shabu". Created by Saburo...

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Samadhi
Selasa, 2026-08-11 16:06:09

inculcation of awareness, such as sati, sampajāno, and upekkhā, are mistranslated or understood as particular factors of meditative states, whereas they...

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A Chinese–English Dictionary
Senin, 2025-11-17 22:53:52

dictionary. Giles started compilation after being rebuked for criticizing mistranslations in Samuel Wells Williams' (1874) A Syllabic Dictionary of the Chinese...

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Gemini Notebook
Rabu, 2026-07-22 01:43:28

21, 2026). "AI-generated podcasts: Synthetic intimacy and cultural mistranslation in audio overviews from Google's NotebookLM". Media, Culture & Society...

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Book of Baruch
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 18:29:54

to 3:8) where an anomalous reading in the Greek appears to imply a mistranslation of a Hebrew or Aramaic source; as at chapter 3:4, where 'hear now the...

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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Leonardo)
Rabu, 2026-07-15 04:03:20

against my lips." Unfortunately for Freud, the word 'vulture' was a mistranslation by the German translator of the Codex and the bird that Leonardo imagined...

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Mardaites
Kamis, 2026-05-21 22:06:26

1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_2000. OCLC 495469475. Woods, David. "Corruption and Mistranslation: The Common Syriac Source on the Origin of the Mardaites". Archived...

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Anattā
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 02:51:02

Buddhist scholar Richard Gombrich, however, argues that anattā is often mistranslated as meaning "not having a self or essence", but actually means "is not...

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County Dublin
Selasa, 2026-08-18 04:23:50

Lambay lies a smaller island known as Ireland's Eye – the result of a mistranslation of the island's Irish name by invading Vikings. Bull Island is a man-made...

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Sacrum
Senin, 2026-06-22 13:19:32

also mean "strong", it has also been suggested that os sacrum is a mistranslation of a term intended to mean "the strong bone". This is supported by the...

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Finns
Senin, 2026-08-17 00:46:17

britannica.com. 17 October 2024. Retrieved 18 October 2024. Heimo is often mistranslated as "tribe", but a heimo is a dialectal and cultural kinship rather than...

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Ecclesia and Synagoga
Minggu, 2026-08-16 10:47:09

horned Moses has usually been thought to be purely the result of a mistranslation by Jerome, but some of the medieval depictions have been interpreted...

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Great Heathen Army
Senin, 2026-08-03 19:14:36

than not translated, into English texts, as 'the Vikings' which is a mistranslation. The Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus gives Ragnar no less than ten...

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The Astyanax
Sabtu, 2026-04-25 02:12:48

who explains that he is in the kingdom of Remlia (either a possible mistranslation of Lemuria, or a pun on the sleep phase REM) and has been summoned to...

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Mummy
Minggu, 2026-07-19 00:26:20

International Society for Plastination. In the Middle Ages, based on a mistranslation from the Arabic term for bitumen, it was thought that mummies possessed...

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Newton's laws of motion
Senin, 2026-05-11 21:42:55

02339. doi:10.1017/psa.2021.38. Pappas, Stephanie (5 September 2023). "Mistranslation of Newton's First Law Discovered after Nearly Nearly 300 Years". Scientific...

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Google Translate
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 11:16:29

two different meanings in the translated language. This might lead to mistranslation. Additionally, grammatical errors remain a major limitation to the accuracy...

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Menander
Rabu, 2026-07-29 19:35:37

popular form "the die is cast" is from the Latin iacta alea est, a mistranslation by Suetonius, 121 AD. According to Plutarch, the actual phrase used...

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Libri Carolini
Selasa, 2026-07-07 11:13:00

There was indeed one passage in the Acts of Nicaea which had been mistranslated as confusing the two; and this passage is duly pilloried in the Libri...

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Sea urchin
Minggu, 2026-08-16 11:47:52

panes of horn left out. However, this has recently been proven to be a mistranslation. Aristotle's lantern is actually referring to the whole shape of sea...

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Sit Down, Shut Up (2009 TV series)
Selasa, 2026-08-11 06:51:03

words are a mondegreen for "I am fond of America", so it might be a mistranslation on his translator's part. Before he began speaking English on his own...

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End of World War II in Asia
Rabu, 2026-08-12 22:37:55

Naimushin, Boris (1 June 2021). "HIROSHIMA, MOKUSATSU AND ALLEGED MISTRANSLATIONS" (PDF). English Studies at NBU. 7 (1): 89–95. "atomic bombings of Hiroshima...

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First Epistle to the Corinthians
Senin, 2026-08-17 12:40:08

"authority (exousia) may possibly be due to mistranslation of an Aramaic word for veil". This mistranslation may be due to "the fact that in Aramaic the...

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Caligula
Senin, 2026-08-17 15:37:14

men to collect seashells as "spoils of the sea"; this may also be a mistranslation of musculi, meaning siege engines. The conquest of Britannia was later...

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World's Strongest Tag Determination League
Selasa, 2026-06-16 23:17:09

providing nothing for either team. The name "Real World Tag League" was a mistranslation by AJPW promoter Giant Baba; "saikyō" in Japanese means "strongest,"...

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Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion
Jumat, 2026-07-31 05:19:47

killed according to the Gaza Health Ministry (GHM), but this was a mistranslation of a report that had mentioned over 500 total victims, including injured...

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Na Chornykh Lyadakh
Kamis, 2026-08-13 19:07:05

the official right holder did not respond to the invitations. Often mistranslated as On Black Ice. In fact, "ляды" means "slash-and-burn fields" (see...

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Spermargarita
Senin, 2023-12-04 12:06:58

margarita (マルガリィタ). "Super Margarita" and "Spell Margarita" are common mistranslations. "Wakaremichi" is a re-recording of the initial track from the Wakaremichi...

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Denys Prokopenko
Jumat, 2026-07-24 21:45:50

(proper noun with stress on the first syllable—thus, contrary to some mistranslations, contrastive with реди́с, redís, 'radish', which is stressed on the...

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Schema (psychology)
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 04:33:25

In subsequent discussions of Piaget in English, schema was often a mistranslation of Piaget's original French schéme. The distinction has been of particular...

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List of Hong Kong placename etymologies
Jumat, 2025-11-14 21:31:17

Literal Chinese geographic Clear Water Bay Diamond Hill Literal Chinese (mistranslation) activity Stone-mining (lit. 鑽石) as a verb, which means diamond when...

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Abdullah Mohamed al-Dawood
Senin, 2025-09-29 16:14:40

2014-04-11. "Saudi tweeter gets cyber-pummeling over sex harassment mistranslation". CNN.com. 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2014-04-11. "Molestation tweet 'was...

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Well to Hell
Senin, 2026-07-13 01:48:04

across the Russian sky. To perpetuate his hoax, Rendalen deliberately mistranslated a trivial Norwegian article about a local building inspector into the...

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List of Latin phrases (E)
Selasa, 2026-06-23 23:40:42

rule (i.e., that parking is allowed Monday through Saturday). Often mistranslated as "the exception that proves the rule". excusatio non petita accusatio...

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Police 911
Kamis, 2026-06-25 21:45:05

Koji Motomura (sometimes mistranslated as Hiroshi Motomura; 本村 弘司 Motomura Koji), Sadaharu Kitaya (sometimes mistranslated as Sadaharu Kitadani; 北谷 貞治...

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Matzah
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 22:00:50

truly one of the five grains, or whether it resulted from a historical mistranslation. Some manufacturers produce gluten-free matzah-lookalikes made from...

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Jewish views on Jesus
Jumat, 2026-07-24 09:00:56

Jesus is the textual messiah of the Hebrew Bible as being based on mistranslations, given that Jesus did not fulfill any of the Jewish Messiah qualifications...

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Antisemitic trope
Senin, 2026-08-10 23:27:01

qualifications of the Messiah. Biblical verses "referring" to Jesus are mistranslations. Jewish belief is based on national revelation. Conservative Waxman...

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Sułtańska Woda
Jumat, 2025-12-26 16:48:16

right bank opposite Zameczna Góra. The Polish name is derived from a mistranslation of the German name: dialect. sulten = salzig: salty. "TROCHĘ GEOGRAFII"...

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The Street Fighter
Rabu, 2026-06-17 16:10:18

Sugury." Rakuda is named "Ratnose"; The villain Tateki's name is also mistranslated as Junjō. On November 7, 2018, it was announced that Shout! Factory...

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Sarmatians
Minggu, 2026-08-16 09:42:19

John Day has argued that Bachrach's analysis is flawed, because he mistranslated the original passage from Ammianus Marcellinus. Day notes that Ammianus...

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The Joy Luck Club (novel)
Kamis, 2026-07-09 14:39:33

move on. She allows Clifford to control most aspects of her life; he mistranslates her words and actions, and even changes her name to "Betty". Ying-Ying...

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Plateosaurus
Senin, 2026-07-27 21:13:06

Plateosaurus (probably meaning "broad lizard", often mistranslated as "flat lizard") is a genus of plateosaurid dinosaur that lived during the Late Triassic...

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High five
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 07:27:08

other high-fives; when the Japanese asked about the gesture it was mistranslated as hai tatchi or "high touch". This story is possibly apocryphal, as...

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Samkhya
Rabu, 2026-07-29 12:05:48

emotional, sensorial and physical aspects of reality. It is often mistranslated as 'matter' or 'nature' – in non-Sāṃkhyan usage it does mean 'essential...

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Hassan Rouhani
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 17:26:12

Iranian state media contradicted this, accusing CNN of deliberate mistranslation. Independent translations, including one by the Wall Street Journal...

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Sacred prostitution
Rabu, 2026-06-24 04:12:58

prostitution as a concept, suggesting that the claims are based on mistranslations, misunderstandings or outright inventions of ancient authors. Authors...

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Blood and Guts in High School
Minggu, 2026-06-07 15:25:36

section of the book titled "The Persian Poems", Acker deliberately mistranslates poems written in Persian into a parallel English text. This has been...

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List of translations of the Quran
Selasa, 2026-08-04 13:29:56

January 2022. Retrieved 28 January 2022. "Fake: Saudi Arabia did not mistranslate Quran in Hebrew to appease Israel". The Milli Chronicle. 3 February 2020...

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Thuvia, Maid of Mars
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 15:47:21

observed features on Mars he called canali (Italian for "channels"). Mistranslation of this into English as "canals" fuelled belief the planet was inhabited...

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Religion in China
Minggu, 2026-08-16 02:50:08

3130/jaabe.15.9. S2CID 53994697. Note that the article, in an evident mistranslation from Chinese, reports 30 million Tibetan Buddhists in Inner Mongolia...

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Último Dragón
Kamis, 2026-07-30 11:11:24

Championship Wrestling (WCW) promotion in August 1996 initially under the mistranslated name "Ultimate Dragon". He was referred to by this name for over a year...

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The Kerala Story
Senin, 2026-06-29 14:57:57

claimed figures in the film are wildly inaccurate, being based on mistranslations, misquotes, and misrepresentations of unrelated statistics. No more...

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Standing Bear
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 07:30:48

White Eagle and other Ponca leaders later claimed that because of a mistranslation, he had understood that they were to move to the Omaha Reservation,...

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Atlantic voyage of Mansa Muhammad
Rabu, 2026-07-29 11:47:27

Bakr II in the list of Malian rulers is an error that originated in a mistranslation of Ibn Khaldun’s text by the 19th-century European historian Baron de...

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David Beckham
Senin, 2026-08-17 19:11:00

after the end of the season. However, he later claimed that he was mistranslated and that he actually said that Beckham's contract had not yet been renewed...

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Legal disputes over the Harry Potter series
Selasa, 2026-08-11 11:52:29

the People's Republic of China. (In English-language media this was mistranslated as Harry Potter and Leopard-Walk-Up-to-Dragon.) According to translated...

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Weiße Frauen
Sabtu, 2025-11-29 09:38:07

Wieven are traceable at least as far back as the 7th century, and their mistranslation as White Women instead of the original Wise Women can be explained by...

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Hutton Gibson
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 06:51:35

position on the Siri thesis, asserting that this theory was based on a mistranslation of an article written on October 27, 1958, by Silvio Negro for the evening...

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Pie Jesu
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 11:48:31

Jesus/Iesus. Requiem is the accusative of requies ("rest"), sometimes mistranslated as "peace", although that would be pacem, as in Dona nobis pacem ("Give...

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Extraordinary rendition
Selasa, 2026-08-11 20:27:04

with Khalid El-Masri. His detention appears to have arisen through a mistranslation of a telephone conversation, in which U.S. officials believed he was...

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Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation
Rabu, 2026-07-29 04:47:09

tribal origin. Rocky Boy's unusual name was derived from the English mistranslation of the name of the tribal chief, Ahsiniiwin (in the Chippewa/Anishanaabe...

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Renaissance magic
Minggu, 2026-08-09 13:12:07

and Nostradamus's quatrains are the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate). These academics also argue that Nostradamus's...

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Jacques Derrida
Rabu, 2026-08-05 11:01:28

Controversy, Derrida argued that the interview was an intentionally malicious mistranslation, which was "demonstrably execrable" and "weak, simplistic, and compulsively...

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Prostate
Senin, 2026-08-10 23:15:21

used, meaning "one who stands before," "leader" or "guardian," was a mistranslation of the term for the Ancient Greek word used to describe the seminal...

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Ansatsuken
Jumat, 2026-08-07 17:38:37

striking-based martial arts such as Karate and Kempo. Though not a mistranslation, it likely stems from a wrong understanding of the usage of the term...

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Karaite Judaism
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 21:39:52

in reference to the ‘Aseret HaDevarim (the Ten Utterances, usually mistranslated as "the Ten Commandments"), and in Deuteronomy 11:18 in reference to...

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Ju Jingyi
Jumat, 2026-07-24 01:59:15

000 years idol" by Chinese fans since 2014; however, due to a slight mistranslation, she has also been called a "once in 4,000 years beauty" by the Japanese...

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Lac Seul First Nation
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 08:28:25

Lookout. The French name for the lake and the reserve, Lac Seul, may be a mistranslation of Obishikokaang as Obezhigokaang: "Sole Abundance". The meaning of...

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Criticism of the BBC
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 10:57:25

Israel". In February 2025, it was reported that the BBC had allegedly mistranslated or omitted the Arabic word for "Jews" when it was used by interviewees...

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Váli
Selasa, 2026-02-03 11:59:48

Ruthenian army held a funeral for him and buried him in a barrow. Early mistranslation or confusion has led to a single mention of a Váli who is a son of Loki:...

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Grand Prix motor racing
Minggu, 2026-08-09 13:36:43

list a race called the Pau Grand Prix in 1901. This may stem from a mistranslation of contemporary French sources such as the magazine La France Auto of...

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The Little Prince
Selasa, 2026-08-18 04:27:00

other English translations. Her translation contained some errors. Mistranslations aside, one reviewer noted that Woods's almost "poetic" English translation...

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Bicameral mentality
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 02:05:47

that previous claims of insanity in Homeric literature are based on mistranslations. Early coverage by Sam Keen in the November 1977 issue of Psychology...

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When the Phone Rings
Selasa, 2026-07-28 02:53:03

(January 6, 2025). "When the Phone Rings: Did Netflix get it wrong? Mistranslation claims surface over finale". Sinar Harian. Official website (in Korean)...

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Konami
Selasa, 2026-08-18 00:05:12

production, stating that he believed the root of the problem to be either a mistranslation or a misinterpretation of Hayakawa's remarks. In August 2015, The Nikkei...

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Gemstones in the Bible
Selasa, 2026-06-23 06:11:36

Greek or Latin, certainly not to English. Because of the frequency of mistranslation, the Greek and Latin translations of the Hebrew Bible have been largely...

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Machine translation
Rabu, 2026-07-15 17:52:47

caution that the use of machine translation in medicine could risk mistranslations that can be dangerous in critical situations. Machine translation can...

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Church of God International (United States)
Sabtu, 2026-03-14 13:20:53

influence of Greco-Roman philosophy, Gnosticism, anti-Semitism and mistranslation which occurred early in the history of the church, and believes that...

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Albanoi
Kamis, 2026-08-06 04:15:28

Arbon in his description of the Illyrian Wars. Arbon, in a series of mistranslations, has been called an island or a city, even though Polybius never mentions...

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Relations between Nazi Germany and the Arab world
Rabu, 2026-08-05 11:41:22

Bernard Lewis mischaracterized early Ba'athism by relying on truncated or mistranslated excerpts from al-Jundi's memoirs, asserting that such interpretations...

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List of Drake & Josh episodes
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 02:07:21

however Yooka is serious about being married (revealing that they mistranslated her saying "sick of home", instead of "homesick"), and matters worsen...

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Algerian War
Selasa, 2026-08-18 03:34:46

"fellagha" (a derogatory Arabic word meaning "road-cutters" but often mistranslated as "throat-cutters" in reference to the FLN's frequent method of execution...

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Guanyin
Kamis, 2026-08-13 10:04:18

early translators mistook Avalokiteśvara for Avalokitasvara and thus mistranslated Avalokiteśvara as Guānyīn, which explained why Xuanzang translated Avalokiteśvara...

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Marpiya te najin
Selasa, 2026-06-02 10:49:10

Marpiya te najin has also historically been known improperly by the mistranslated name Cut-Nose, which is considered inappropriate by many members of...

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Scarlett Supermarket
Senin, 2026-06-15 20:21:44

not contain the drug, and the error was due to a Chinese supplier's mistranslation. The affected batch was removed from the Lot One store and sent back...

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Margaret I of Denmark
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 21:27:12

Margareta had, while 19th-century authors have blamed the story on a mistranslation), or poisoning by Erik. Her sarcophagus, made by the Lübeck sculptor...

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Nostradamus
Kamis, 2026-07-02 23:21:54

quatrains are the result of (sometimes deliberate) misinterpretations or mistranslations. These academics also argue that Nostradamus's predictions are characteristically...

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John Webster (minister)
Minggu, 2026-07-05 22:40:52

witches. Webster went as far as suggesting that the Bible had been mistranslated to support that belief. It was translated into German, being published...

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Mars
Senin, 2026-08-17 18:55:20

Earth. His term, which means "channels" or "grooves", was popularly mistranslated in English as "canals". Influenced by the observations, the orientalist...

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Nilüfer Göle
Selasa, 2026-05-26 05:41:42

title is a mistranslation of the original Turkish title, Modern Mahrem, which actually means the modern taboo. It may be that the mistranslation is due to...

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Fist of the North Star (NES video game)
Selasa, 2026-05-26 07:34:56

which were the death cries of certain villain characters in the manga. Mistranslated as "Gento Karate" in the manual At the time of its release (April 17...

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Berber traditional religion
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 22:24:21

Tipaza is also known as Kbour-er-Roumia or Tomb of Juba and Sypax, mistranslated by the French colonists as Tomb of the Christian Woman. The Tomb holds...

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Jerome
Rabu, 2026-08-12 14:31:09

invalid Jewish scriptural texts because of what were ascertained as mistranslations along with its Hellenistic heretical elements. He completed this work...

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Let It Go
Sabtu, 2026-06-20 20:34:01

multiple languages and back to English, revealing expected humorous mistranslations, with lines such as "Let us very angry" and "Give up, tune in, slam...

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Old Shop, Newfoundland and Labrador
Selasa, 2025-07-29 20:01:50

those that worked there. Local tradition states the name comes from mistranslation of "Old Chop" and happened when the town was first settled for permanent...

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Muqtada al-Sadr
Rabu, 2026-08-12 18:41:16

later in 2014, he called for the formation of "Peace Companies", often mistranslated as "Peace Brigades", to protect Shia shrines from the Islamic State...

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List of informally named dinosaurs
Kamis, 2026-08-13 13:56:07

generic name. Despite the only name ever applied to it being merely a mistranslation of gadrosavr, this specimen has appeared in many popular dinosaur books...

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Book of Mormon and the King James Bible
Kamis, 2026-06-25 02:12:43

the other half. The scholarly consensus is that the Septuagint is a mistranslation of the original Hebrew. Isaiah 2:16 is part of a poetic section and...

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Military of the Ming dynasty
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 03:41:21

being left bare. This afforded complete protection from rifle bullets (mistranslation-should read "small arms") and yet left ample freedom to move, as those...

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History of the compass
Kamis, 2026-06-18 23:47:15

described this theory as "erroneous" and "it originates because of a mistranslation" of the term chia-ling found in Zhu Yu's book Pingchow Table Talks....

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PowerWord
Kamis, 2025-04-03 01:56:39

iciba.com. Victor Mair. "The Etiology and Elaboration of a Flagrant Mistranslation". "Chinese translation error blamed for slur on sofa label". CNN. Retrieved...

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Dhole
Senin, 2026-08-17 07:44:32

confused with 'jackal' or 'wolf', resulting in many confusions and mistranslations of dholes as jackals or wolves. A dhole may have been presented as...

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Snoopy vs. the Red Baron (song)
Jumat, 2026-06-19 03:53:29

Schweinköpfigen Hund und den lieben Red Baron," which is a purposeful mistranslation of the English: "Attention! We will now sing together the story of that...

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Men Without Women (Murakami short story collection)
Minggu, 2026-06-07 08:44:38

and how, upon hearing it, Tanimura is reminded of Kitaru's playful mistranslation of the lyrics into "Kansai Japanese." Tanimura tells of a time in his...

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List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:22:33

Often incorrectly translated as 'beautiful river', due to a French mistranslation. Oklahoma September 5, 1842 Choctaw okla + homa Devised as a rough translation...

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The Woman Warrior
Senin, 2026-06-08 09:36:54

Kingston's mistranslation of the Cantonese term, "ghost", and Benjamin R. Tong, another Asian American writer, stated that this mistranslation was done...

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Dragon Ball Z season 1
Senin, 2026-07-20 09:57:24

the scene originally aired on American television. This line was a mistranslation in a scene where Vegeta reacts to Goku's power level, and did not appear...

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Further Austria
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 21:14:24

phonologically similar to the German term Vorder-Österreich, it is a mistranslation if taken literally. While English further (or farther) denotes something...

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Chandragupta Maurya
Kamis, 2026-07-30 06:38:52

Alexander. However, according to Thomas Trautmann, this was a due to mistranslation in early printed book, and the correct reading was Nandrum (Nanada king)...

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Edward Coke
Minggu, 2026-05-31 05:52:16

inaccurate English copy of the Latin statute of scandalum magnatum which had mistranslated several passages, forcing them to start the case anew. After the case...

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Judaism
Senin, 2026-08-10 17:52:21

qualifications of the Messiah. #Biblical verses "referring" to Jesus are mistranslations. #Jewish belief is based on national revelation. Conservative Waxman...

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Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Jumat, 2026-07-31 10:13:13

unfamiliar to this society. However, Bakare-Yusuf argues that the threat of mistranslation works both ways. Just as there are fewer systems of gendering among...

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Hybrid beasts in folklore
Jumat, 2026-08-07 13:24:06

Christian representation of Moses with horns, however, is due to a mistranslation of the Hebrew text of Exodus 34:29–35 by Jerome. The most prominent...

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Na Ceannabháin Bhána
Kamis, 2026-07-16 12:06:13

The title of this piece of music when played without lyrics has been mistranslated as The White Cotton Flowers or The Fair Cotton Flowers due to the similarity...

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History of Buffalo, New York
Sabtu, 2026-07-18 05:07:13

local historians at one time was the possibility that an interpreter mistranslated the Native American word for "beaver" as "buffalo," the words being...

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Toward an Architecture
Senin, 2026-01-05 23:33:06

architecture): "Three Reminders to Architects" with sections on "Mass" (a mistranslation of the French), "Surface," and "Plan" (Trois rappels a MM. les architects...

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Donkey Kong 64
Rabu, 2026-07-29 14:54:26

Extension argued that early reports of a 64DD release were "a mistake, a mistranslation, or simply talks between upper management." Grant Kirkhope stated that...

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Wa (name of Japan)
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 20:02:47

''statesman' (cf. modern 大夫; dàifu; 'physician'', ''doctor''), which mistranslates Japanese imperial 大夫, taifu, '5th-rank courtier', 'head of administrative...

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Raffles Junior College
Rabu, 2026-03-18 14:47:25

shield, is officially translated as "Hope of a Better Age". While a mistranslation, this has become the standard version. It is also the motto of the Order...

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Prakriti
Minggu, 2026-05-31 15:40:27

emotional, sensorial and physical aspects of reality. It is often mistranslated as 'matter' or 'nature' – in non-Sāṃkhyan usage it does mean 'essential...

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Chemical nomenclature
Selasa, 2026-06-02 03:02:47

fairly broad structural class with a formal definition, but where mistranslations and general misuse of the term relative to the formal definition has...

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Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
Rabu, 2026-08-12 11:23:54

1546, as to Cortés burning his ships. This may have also come from a mistranslation of the version of the story written in Latin. With all of his ships...

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Auricularia auricula-judae
Minggu, 2026-01-04 06:19:21

herbalists, in reference to Sambucus, the generic name for elder. The mistranslation "Jew's Ear" appeared in English by 1544. The English common name of...

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Timeline of Solar System astronomy
Rabu, 2026-08-12 04:23:21

surface on Mars that he claimed as artificial Martian canals (due to a mistranslation of a previous paper by Schiaparelli on the subject), popularizing the...

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Type 89 grenade discharger
Kamis, 2026-05-28 19:00:04

to their lower leg which led to their use of the term "ankle"). This mistranslation, along with the curved baseplate that was roughly the same diameter...

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Sun-hee
Rabu, 2025-09-10 17:29:46

Seong-hui. The developers of this game series later stated that this was a mistranslation from Korean to Japanese, which was then translated into English. Sunhi...

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Mencius
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 04:41:10

believed to be condemnation of celibacy as unfilial, which is rather a mistranslation of a similar word referring more to aspects of personality.[citation...

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Karlheinz Stockhausen
Kamis, 2026-08-13 08:12:38

period) as punktuelle Musik, "punctual" or "pointist" music, commonly mistranslated as "pointillist", though one critic concluded after analysing several...

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We Care
Selasa, 2025-11-11 05:12:16

number 24 on Billboard's Modern Rock chart. The word "slobo" was a mistranslation by the band, who meant to use the British slang word "sloane". After...

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Psychic
Rabu, 2026-08-12 12:57:14

Nostradamus' quatrains are largely the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate) or else are so tenuous as to render them useless...

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Eofor
Kamis, 2022-01-13 04:24:00

this saga, Egil is killed by a bull, which likely originates from a mistranslation of the Ynglingatal, where he was killed by a boar. As such, it's possible...

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Populism
Jumat, 2026-08-14 20:03:07

populism have been employed. The term "populism" has long been subject to mistranslation. Further, the term has also been used to describe a broad (and often...

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List of Latin phrases (T)
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 00:44:05

terra gloria eius ("the whole earth is full of his glory"). Sometimes mistranslated as "they will illuminate the lands" based on mistaking irradiare for...

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Angel's Egg
Minggu, 2026-08-09 03:55:34

was a man of faith has its origins in an interview that was likely mistranslated, in which Oshii is reported to say, "I planned to enter a seminary at...

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Anahita
Minggu, 2026-08-16 17:07:31

epithet, roughly translatable as 'the mindful one', but is itself a mistranslation of Vohu Manah, the Amesha Spenta of 'Good Mind' or 'Good Purpose'. λ...

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Natchez people
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 08:09:27

researchers have questioned this idea. They have noted in particular a mistranslation of the primary sources and a misreading by Swanton. In other words,...

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Divine Comedy in popular culture
Kamis, 2026-08-06 02:50:44

"malebranche" for one diabolical race, although the original write-up mistranslated that word as "evil horn". The Planescape setting, in particular, borrows...

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Flap steak
Senin, 2026-07-06 19:31:28

England region of the United States (as steak tips). The cut is often mistranslated as "flank steak". Flap meat is a thin, fibrous and chewy cut that is...

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NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
Minggu, 2026-08-16 13:49:11

анђео / Milosrdni anđeo), possibly as a result of a misunderstanding or mistranslation. NATO's intervention was prompted by Yugoslavia's ethnic cleansing of...

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Characters of the Soulcalibur series
Minggu, 2026-07-19 18:54:11

given a royal pardon. One of Siegfried's extra weapons is the Glam (mistranslation of Gram), the weapon that Sigurd in Norse mythology used to kill the...

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White rhinoceros
Jumat, 2026-07-24 11:51:15

discredited, theory for the origin of the name "white rhinoceros" is a mistranslation of the Dutch word "wijd" (meaning "wide" in English) into English. The...

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Matthew 5:27–28
Kamis, 2026-04-30 03:40:52

you have sexual intercourse, it happens in your heart. However, the mistranslation is unfortunate at this point. In the Greek it says, "If anyone looks...

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Buddhist meditation
Kamis, 2026-07-23 03:51:01

inculcation of awareness, such as sati, sampajāno, and upekkhā, are mistranslated or understood as particular factors of meditative states, whereas they...

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Lin Shu
Selasa, 2026-05-12 22:15:16

(1897–1913), Lin's renditions were mostly vigorous, despite all the mistranslations. After that, Lin's renditions were dull, serving only as a means to...

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Inertia
Rabu, 2026-08-05 18:58:53

2023-08-17. Retrieved 2023-09-29. Pappas, Stephanie (5 September 2023). "Mistranslation of Newton's First Law Discovered after Nearly Nearly 300 Years". Scientific...

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Taiping Rebellion
Selasa, 2026-08-11 08:55:07

it tapered off in later years. Part of the extremeness came from a mistranslation of the Ten Commandments, which led to the seventh commandment also forbidding...

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Horse latitudes
Kamis, 2026-08-06 03:46:53

named after the Englishman who described them first but could have been mistranslated, as Pferd and Ross are German synonyms for a horse. An incorrect translation...

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François Péron
Senin, 2026-08-10 23:55:21

been unfairly accused of polygenism and racism, mainly because of a mistranslation of extracts from one of his scientific papers.[citation needed] Baudin...

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Epidemics in Chorão Island
Rabu, 2026-05-06 06:05:22

as the article excludes crucial details and some areas have clear mistranslations, presumably due to the use of AI translation tools. Relevant discussion...

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DeLorean time machine
Jumat, 2026-07-31 17:25:27

de fluzo [es] ("The Flux Capacitor") after the film prop. Fluzo is a mistranslation of "flux" that appeared in the Spanish dubbing of the first film and...

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Timeline of Eastern Orthodoxy in Greece (33–717)
Rabu, 2026-06-17 04:16:00

codifies the ethical precepts of monastic life in his Asketika (sometimes mistranslated as Rules of St. Basil), thus remembered as a father of communal monasticism...

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Ben-Yehuda Dictionary
Selasa, 2026-03-31 04:20:00

strength and go forward", The Charedim, who opposed Ben-Yehuda's vision mistranslated these words as an intention to gather an army to rebel the Ottomans...

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Caesar's Messiah
Selasa, 2026-06-16 01:23:23

parallels, and stated that they can be explained as either coincidences, mistranslations, or references to Old Testament sources or tropes. Atwill argues (contrary...

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Christine Daaé
Rabu, 2026-01-14 23:31:35

novel, Christine's age is given as 15 years old. However, this is a mistranslation of a passage that says her heart was "as pure as that of a 15-year-old"...

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Biblical inerrancy
Selasa, 2026-07-28 01:43:24

because it has the same meaning as the original Hebrew and Greek. A mistranslation is not God's word, and no human authority can invest it with divine...

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Public Square Street
Selasa, 2025-09-23 17:46:46

name in Chinese was 公眾四方街 (Kung Chong Sze Fong Kai in Cantonese), a mistranslation that resulted from the word square being misinterpreted as a geometric...

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Percival Lowell
Senin, 2026-05-11 08:58:57

regarded as an optical illusion. This was likely exacerbated by a common mistranslation of the Italian word canale (which means channel rather than canal, and...

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Can This Love Be Translated?
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 10:29:46

their first filmed date, Ho-jin grows protective and intentionally mistranslates Hiro's harsh remarks into jabs directed back at the actor. When Hiro...

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Bernal sphere
Senin, 2026-05-25 04:17:37

knew about Shadow, including Maria, who died trying to protect him. A mistranslation in the English dub of Sonic Adventure 2 has Tails incorrectly refer...

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Thelwall
Minggu, 2025-09-07 18:57:02

defence against the Danes. "Burh" means military fort but has been mistranslated by Higden leading to Thelwall being described as a “cite" (town or city)...

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List of English words of Dutch origin
Selasa, 2026-05-12 21:54:44

"eendekooi" (duck cage; a cage with an artificial duck to lure wild ducks); mistranslated as "een" dekooi; should have been read as "eend (duck)" -e- "kooi (cage)"->...

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Korean comfort women
Rabu, 2024-07-10 01:00:17

(after 1945) Korean Women's Volunteer Labour Corps (Korean:조선여자근로정신대), mistranslated as Korean comfort women corps Military Comfort Women (disambiguation)...

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Cadair Idris
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 06:07:59

skilled in poetry, astronomy and philosophy, it has sometimes been mistranslated as Arthur's Seat, in reference to King Arthur (and to the hill of the...

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Fenton (name)
Kamis, 2026-07-30 20:39:17

Fiachna', an old personal name Anglicized as Feighney and sometimes mistranslated as 'Hunt' (see Fee). Notable people with the name include: Lavinia Fenton...

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Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
Minggu, 2026-08-02 02:42:14

United States, but more recent research has argued that this was a mistranslation of the true location. The U.S. acquired the land in treaties with the...

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Kiringul
Jumat, 2026-04-03 04:12:03

Helen (5 December 2012). "Unicorn lair 'discovery' blamed partly on mistranslation". The Guardian. Davis, Lauren (1 December 2012). "No, the North Korean...

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Minden Row
Rabu, 2025-07-30 20:54:33

Chinese name (Chinese: 緬甸臺; lit. 'Myanmar Row') of the street was a mistranslation, as it has little to do with the Southeast Asian country. The small...

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Science Adventure
Kamis, 2026-08-06 12:46:47

games have been criticized for their subpar release quality, including mistranslations, inconsistent terminology, and technical issues, among other things...

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Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development
Selasa, 2026-08-18 04:04:23

declassification already laid out for them on December 8, 2006. In response to the mistranslated summaries, Judge Fish noted that unless the defendants found more than...

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Pratt–Yorke opinion
Rabu, 2026-07-01 22:49:00

Americans, circulated modified versions of the Pratt–Yorke opinion. Mistranslated versions of the opinion appeared in North America around 1757 or 1773...

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Kaifeng Jews
Senin, 2026-08-10 11:16:57

to the Zhou dynasty. This arose as the result of a misreading of a mistranslation of the relevant stele by White (Leslie 1962, p. 354). "Because the narratives...

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Statue of Moses (University of Notre Dame)
Minggu, 2026-06-28 00:03:30

representation of Moses with horns in is head. Initially it was thought to be "a mistranslation, because the Hebrew word for horns can also refer to rays of light."...

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Problem of Hell
Minggu, 2026-07-05 18:18:36

Greek words that since they had no exact ones to use, became a mix of mistranslation, pagan influence, and Greek myth associated with the word, but its original...

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Culinary arts
Senin, 2026-07-27 17:13:31

what you eat, and I will tell you what you are", which has since been mistranslated and simplified into "You are what you eat". Other people helped to parse...

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Jôf Fuart
Jumat, 2026-08-14 11:34:41

western Julian Alps after Jôf di Montasio. The mountain's name is a mistranslation of the original name Viš, (from više, meaning "higher" or višek, "the...

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Lost Planet 2
Minggu, 2026-05-31 04:53:58

to be charged for or free. These claims were later to be deemed as a mistranslation. In an interview with the game's producer, he claimed that there was...

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Mayfield, Cork
Jumat, 2026-01-16 18:15:56

Independent. 19 June 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2023. Lovers' Walk [..] is a mistranslation of Siúl na Lobhar, or Lepers' Walk, as there was once a leper colony...

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Into the West (miniseries)
Senin, 2026-08-10 10:53:25

but his efforts are thwarted by a drunken scout who intentionally mistranslates the negotiations. The lieutenant orders his soldiers to open fire on...

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René Goscinny
Sabtu, 2026-08-08 23:40:28

through the premieres[dubious – [[Talk:René Goscinny#I guess it's a mistranslation, "premieres" is wrong and what's meant is "the first [2 movies]". See...

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Mansa Muhammad
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 03:05:07

Bakr II in the list of Malian rulers is an error that originated in a mistranslation of Ibn Khaldun’s text by the 19th-century European historian Baron de...

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Missouri State University
Minggu, 2026-08-16 23:43:14

program. The university continued to defend the program, arguing that mistranslations of the article had provided an incorrect view of the program's academic...

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Hell in Christianity
Jumat, 2026-07-31 13:11:32

English Bible, for, in our present acceptation of them, they are simply mistranslations." This corroborates the metaphysical interpretation of Scripture, and...

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Industrie und Glück
Kamis, 2025-10-09 14:59:15

arranged differently. The 21st trump is nicknamed the Mond (moon) a mistranslation of the French name monde for The World tarot card. The northern version...

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1937 tour of Germany by the Duke and Duchess of Windsor
Senin, 2026-06-29 21:50:27

Forwood also says that at the same time, Forwood accused Schmidt of mistranslating for Hitler and that Forwood interjected "Falschübersetzt!" or "wrongly...

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Nuclear warfare
Senin, 2026-08-17 13:54:30

tests during tense diplomatic periods, reactions to military exercises, mistranslated or miscommunicated messages, and others. A number of these scenarios...

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Avalokiteśvara
Jumat, 2026-08-07 13:05:55

sound", i.e., the cries of sentient beings who need help) and thus mistranslated Avalokiteśvara as Guānyīn. It is now understood that Avalokitasvara...

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Hu-Du-Men
Rabu, 2026-07-22 22:31:17

believed that "Hu-Du-Men" (literally means "Tiger Passing Gate") is a mistranslation of "Kwai-Du-Men" (鬼度門, literally means "Ghost Passing Gate") or "Du-Gu-Men"...

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Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty
Sabtu, 2025-10-11 03:46:23

preconceptions on the British intentions were bolstered by Nishi's mistranslations, and over the course of three sessions of negotiations (October 4,...

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Sohance
Selasa, 2026-02-03 21:24:04

shown that what was previously thought to be Sillankè was actually a mistranslation of the word “Sohance” found in the Tarikh al-fattash book, which gives...

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Columba (constellation)
Selasa, 2026-05-26 23:53:37

and catalogued its stars. 1889: Richard H. Allen, misled by Caesius's mistranslation, wrote that the Columba asterism may have been invented in Roman/Greek...

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Wilhelm Wundt
Senin, 2026-08-10 09:39:50

United States, is responsible for several English translations and mistranslations of Wundt's works that supported his own views and approach, which he...

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Sumxu
Jumat, 2026-08-07 02:48:35

now used to name animals from the Sciuridae family), but a series of mistranslations might have caused the name to be applied to the alleged cat or cat-like...

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Harry Aveling
Selasa, 2026-05-26 22:36:26

noted that it was perhaps the first such study but that it had several mistranslations. By this time he had translated more than 50 volumes of Indonesian...

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Bell P-63 Kingcobra
Jumat, 2026-07-10 23:42:00

Soviet memoir (see quote box, right), this was likely a result of mistranslations of Soviet military terminology. The role known as prikrytiye sukhoputnykh...

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Psychobiography
Jumat, 2026-08-14 00:24:44

conclusions have not survived scrutiny, its central interpretation rests on a mistranslation of a Renaissance Italian word for a bird of prey, an error identified...

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Quran
Senin, 2026-08-17 02:09:31

Retrieved 22 August 2024. There are occasional misinterpretations, mistranslations, and even distortions. Translating the meanings of the Holy Quran has...

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1954 National Service riots
Minggu, 2026-06-21 23:30:40

adverse sentiments among these Chinese Middle School students for it was mistranslated as minzhong fuwu, 民众服务, which literally meant "servitude by the masses"...

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Red Planet (novel)
Rabu, 2026-06-10 12:52:26

planet. Schiaparelli called them canali (grooves), which was popularly mistranslated into English as "canals". September 12, 1981, Del Rey, paperback, 208...

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Questing Beast
Rabu, 2026-07-22 00:35:44

half-leopard. According to an Arthuriana article, the beast comes from a mistranslation of the Arabic word zaraffa, leading to the description of the beast...

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Hereford Mappa Mundi
Senin, 2026-07-27 05:00:18

Early world map Virtual Mappa The "horned" aspect could be due to a mistranslation of Moses as cornuta (horned) in the Vulgate Bible, but this itself may...

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Les Amants du Pont-Neuf
Kamis, 2026-07-23 13:27:17

North American title of the film is The Lovers on the Bridge, and, in a mistranslation of the original title, the Australian title is Lovers on the Ninth Bridge...

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Humam Hamoudi
Kamis, 2026-06-11 03:27:52

the minority" (italics added). The term "consider", however, may be a mistranslation of Hamoudi's sentiments (he does not speak English), as the English...

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Mahmoud Darwish
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 16:48:42

specialist on Darwish's poetry, said the poem had been misunderstood and mistranslated. Poet and translator Ammiel Alcalay wrote that "the hysterical overreaction...

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Sun and Moon (Inuit myth)
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:33:19

and sister. The artist's granddaughter believes this title to be a mistranslation of an Inuktitut title and suggests that a more correct title would be...

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Engrish
Senin, 2026-08-10 14:52:24

Engrish is a slang term for the inaccurate, poorly translated, nonsensical or ungrammatical use of the English language by native speakers of other languages...

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Victoria Beckham
Jumat, 2026-07-31 00:50:56

"I've never read a book in my life". She later explained this was a mistranslation from the original Spanish in which the interview was printed, saying...

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Potsdam Declaration
Rabu, 2026-08-12 21:31:46

1080/13556509.2016.1149754. S2CID 148299383. Mark Polizzotti, 'Why Mistranslation Matters,' New York Times 28 July 2018 Chalmers Johnson, 'Omote (Explicit)...

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Megalania
Jumat, 2026-08-14 11:44:13

resulted in numerous taxonomic and popular descriptions of "Megalania" mistranslating the name as "ancient giant butcher." "Megalania" is no longer considered...

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Genetic code
Minggu, 2026-08-16 08:59:54

similar codons, reducing the problems caused by point mutations and mistranslations. Three main hypotheses address the origin of the genetic code. Many...

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Vietnam Militia and Self-Defence Force
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 22:13:13

Militia of Vietnam'), known simply as the Militia (Dân quân) and also mistranslated as the Vietnam Self-Defence Militia (VSDM), is the militia and uniformed...

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Kadan
Minggu, 2026-02-08 09:20:53

and killed his general Alandar. In many medieval sources, Kadan was mistranslated by chroniclers as Kaidu, leading to confusion about who participated...

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Eala Frya Fresena
Minggu, 2026-06-21 05:03:44

coat of arms of East Frisia in northern Germany. The motto is often mistranslated as "Hail, free Frisians!", but it was the reversal of the feudal prostration...

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Political gaffe
Kamis, 2026-08-13 22:11:28

During a 2009 speech in Mexico City, crown prince Willem-Alexander mistranslated the proverb "A sleeping shrimp gets carried away by the tide" roughly...

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Cranio-lenticulo-sutural dysplasia
Sabtu, 2026-07-25 06:28:53

14q13-q21 region of Chromosome 14, where the amino acid phenylalanine is mistranslated and replaced with leucine. Amino acid sequences are encoded in the DNA...

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Henderson Stone
Selasa, 2026-07-21 11:52:24

(Clach Eanruig), Glencoe” (“The name ‘Henry's Stone’ appears to be a mistranslation by the Ordnance Survey. The stone has strong associations with Clan...

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Okja
Sabtu, 2026-07-04 01:45:48

animals. Mija asks them to return her to the mountains, but K purposely mistranslates and tells them Mija agrees. They leave and Okja is recaptured. To minimize...

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Herzogstand
Kamis, 2026-08-13 11:49:34

station in 1929. It operated until the end of World War II, when a mistranslated telegram seemed to request the relocation of its equipment. Later, it...

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Casshan
Sabtu, 2026-08-01 23:52:07

the castle. After some time, it renamed itself Buraiking Boss (often mistranslated in English as "Black King Boss"; the name is derived from 無頼 or burai...

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Xenoarchaeology
Selasa, 2026-07-07 09:46:55

Lowell was the most famous exponent, were apparently inspired by a mistranslation of a quote by Giovanni Schiaparelli. The 1997 Theoretical Archaeology...

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Laon (deity)
Rabu, 2026-06-10 11:25:26

the English mistranslation of De Loarca's description in The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898 (Blair & Robertson, 1903). The book mistranslates the original...

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Saudi-led intervention in the Yemeni civil war
Senin, 2026-08-17 16:19:24

as weapon storage sites. Asiri later claimed that his words had been mistranslated. The United Nations humanitarian coordinator for Yemen Johannes Van...

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Indri
Kamis, 2026-05-28 00:33:19

ISBN 978-0-226-30306-2. Hacking, I. (1981). "Was there ever a radical mistranslation?" (PDF). Analysis. 41 (4): 171–175. doi:10.2307/3327741. JSTOR 3327741...

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Religion and LGBTQ people
Minggu, 2026-07-19 03:32:49

following these developments some have suggested that passages have been mistranslated, are taken out of context, or that they do not refer to what is generally...

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Roberto Cofresí
Selasa, 2026-06-30 01:06:57

attention of the Anglo-American nations, who called him "Cofrecinas" (a mistranslated, onomatopoeic variant of his last name). Commercial agent and US Consul...

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Miskito Sambu
Senin, 2026-08-10 01:50:58

Filibustiers de l’Amerique (Paris, 1690), p. 265 (this passages is seriously mistranslated in the English version. Benito Garret y Arlovi to King, 30 November...

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Sola scriptura
Senin, 2026-08-10 23:23:49

the same meaning as the original Biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek. A mistranslation is not God's word, and no human authority can invest it with divine...

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Sexual and gender-based violence in the October 7 attacks
Sabtu, 2026-08-15 16:14:56

after commentators noted inconsistencies in the testimony and subtitle mistranslations." It added that "The alleged confession was first reported in December...

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Dreaming (Australian Aboriginal art)
Selasa, 2025-11-18 16:43:15

although it has since been pointed out that the rendition is based on a mistranslation. Stanner introduced the derived term of "dreamtime" in the 1970s. "A...

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Tanuki statue
Minggu, 2025-12-21 17:40:47

pompoko, badjā (“badger”) or burerō (blaireau, french for badger) but mistranslations often lead to retaining the name "tanuki." A wooden tanuki sculpture...

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Isaiah 3
Selasa, 2026-07-07 07:25:41

lost in sorrow. According to Susanne Scholz (2010), there is a common mistranslation of the Hebrew word pōt as "forehead" or "scalp". Also often translated...

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Bilingual (album)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 02:06:00

Is)", released on 12 August 1996. The title phrase, "Se a vida é", is mistranslated as "that's the way life is" (the actual meaning in Portuguese is "if...

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List of LGBTQ-related films of 2022
Senin, 2026-08-03 13:19:33

romance or relationships as a plot device. Nikki Baughan, "‘1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture’: Review". Screen Daily, January 11, 2023. 2022...

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