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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?

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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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