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English Linguistics Translation Glossary

English term		English translation
otherwise it didn't feel obvious		writer has the sensation that only the people who passed by train or came to study were aware of *
Oxford Grouper		a member of the religious community "Oxford Group"
parallelism		noun and noun or infinitive phrase and infinitive phrase,etc...
particularities of		the specific features/details of
pat question and answer		glib question and answer / question and answer learned off pat
penultimate day/next to the last day		penultimate day
Persian		Persian
pert or saucy girl/woman		Pert : Impudent and saucy
phonematization		phonemicization (synonym)
physiologic or physiological?		Often -ic forms are favoured in AmE and -ical ones in BrE	Nick Lingris
Entered by: Nick Lingris
polisemy and homonimy		Polysemy and Homonymy
polyphony		the symbolization of different vocal sounds by the same letter or character	Nick Lingris
Entered by: Nick Lingris
polysemy and homonymy		words with more than one meaning/words of the same form (sound alike) but have different meaning
possessive form of "actress"		actress'
pounding it home		stating forcefully and emphatically, and probably repeatedly
President/governor		capitalization varies according to the context
protection profile of sb towards		protection of X against / (current) protective measures for X against
protocol (here)		the plan or outline of a scientific or medical experiment or treatment
Public Notary vs Notary Public		notary public/notary
punctuation and difference beween restrictive and nonrestrictive clauses		restrictive clause no comma, essential information for clarificaiton v. nonrestrictive, no comma, supplementary information
punctuation query		the solid curve corresponds to XXX, the dashed curve to YYY, and the dotted curve to ZZZ.
putting its money where its mouth is		demonstrate its commitment with actions not just words
Quebec's and Ontario's key markets		in key markets in Quebec and Ontario
quote vs cite		quote: repeat, cite: refer to
raised amid natural beauty		brought up in beautiful natural surroundings
recycle prior editions		ignore prior editions; discard them (by recycling them)	NancyLynn
Entered by: NancyLynn
refurbished modern buildings		buildings refurbished to modern standards
register (in linguistics)		situation-specific language variety	Nick Lingris
Entered by: Nick Lingris
resolves to		translates to
Retired Professor of Theology		Dr. xyz(full name), Professor Emeritus of Theology
robbing his own country blind		cheating the country in an unusually deceitful or thorough fashion
rush		rushed
Russia\'s Putin		lazy, but not necessarily disrespectful
sage hen		Hooker / Pro / Friend to humanity
said to myself ...		"I asked myself" is OK instead of "I wondered"
screen on		separate it
seen / observed		"There has been seen/observed" ... is grammatically correct as long as the subject is singular
selfish self-centered		self-absorbed, full of himself , egocentric, egomaniac
sent the aid of		dispatched *
sentence		faulty parallelism

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