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mistranslate

verb as in misconstrue

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In 2014, Japanese man Dorian Nakamoto was pursued by reporters who thought he was the elusive Bitcoin creator, but it proved to be false lead caused by some mistranslated information.

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But he insists the words he used in the Bashkir language mean "poor people" and were mistranslated into Russian.

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The line identifying the member of the Royal Family isn't in the English text, so it hasn't been mistranslated.

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In “The Life Assignment,” you first write in Spanish, and at times you mistranslated into English, how and why did you take that approach?

Ruhl’s plays are sometimes mistranslated from page to stage — rendered less poetic than they are, and more earthbound.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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