mistranslate

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When the interpreter is a no-show, family members often jump in to fill the gap - like the time Ray mischievously stepped up to "mistranslate" his school parents' evening to his own advantage.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2021

I then heard the interpreter mistranslate this question into Mandarin as “Why didn’t the interpreter interpret everything?”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 12, 2015

Emoji also tend to mistranslate when sent between platforms, or they get jumbled if you don’t have the right font.

From New York Times • Jul. 25, 2014

Did they mistranslate “world’s largest professional network” as “professional network that people actually use”?

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2012

To translate it as ‘machine of the world’ is to mistranslate.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton