Tag: mistranslated words

At Raptor Translations Magazine, we sometimes get pieces of work that have been already translated, and not to a particularly high standard. Often, especially when the work is translated through an inexperienced translator, they are full of commonly mistranslated words. So, what are the most common mistranslated words? The most common reason why words are mistranslated are often because of what linguists call ‘false friends’. These are words that look or sound like an English word, yet have nothing to do with the English word they look or sound like.  (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Spanish- Embarazada/Embarassed Embarazada is the Spanish word for pregnant. Whilst this is a mistake that we can understand, it is not any less funny when w...