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With little data, some words are bound to be mistranslated, with the risk that a mistranslation at one step is carried over to all subsequent steps, compounding the error.
"Every act, gesture or word used by one side is destined to be mistranslated in the other system.
In other instances, words were found to be mistranslated, according to the ABA Hispanic committee's report: One Ohio case used the word for right-hand side, instead of a legal right.
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Which raises an interesting question: why does the video – whose creative producer isn't some earnest if fallible student of English, but a Tory councillor born in Lincoln – appear to be mistranslating its own lyrics to make them sound weirder than they actually are?
For example, there are several words in Arabic for "boat". News of a ferry strike could easily be mistranslated to imply that the craft carrying migrants from Turkey to the Greek coast had stopped running.
The molecular mechanisms underlying these diverse phenotypes are not yet understood; tRNAs lacking Q could be degraded, specific proteins could be mistranslated because Q has been shown to influence codon-anticodon interaction, or eTGT could have roles other than modification of tRNAs.
Another dubious excuse is from foreign players who spit out poison to their press compatriots and then claim, with Jacques Chirac-shrug shrug of the shoulders, to have been "mistranslated".
On Monday, the midfielder took to Twitter to say that the interview had been mistranslated, writing: "To everyone who reads German papers: the interview that has been published about me is a translation of a Belgian interview," he wrote.
Defense Department officials have said they plan to review tapes of some of the questioning to see whether they were mistranslated as part of a sabotage effort by translators.
In this excellent article about post-electoral remorse among Republicans, Voltaire is mistranslated to suggest that Adm. John Byng was hanged.
Israeli police arrested a Palestinian man last week after a Facebook post he made saying "good morning" in Arabic was mistranslated to read "attack them" in Hebrew, local media have reported.
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