translatability
- noun
- /trænsˈleɪtəˌbɪlɪti/
- Researchers are exploring the translatability of scientific terms across different languages to facilitate global collaboration.
Examples
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It therefore buys into the trap of the translatability of text into image set by the Albertian historia that Michelangelo's image deconstructs.
Academic text (2011) -
This easy translatability of Chinese sexuality becomes the most telling (mis)interpretation of cultures.
Academic text (2009) -
These roots, in other words, are an index of a translatability that is fundamental to inculturation.
Academic text (2002) -
Once again, I want to connect the translatability of culture in gendered bodily writing to the differences between performance and performativity.
Academic text (2009) -
In contrast to Miranda, Xuxa's translatability makes her "just too weird to survive," as one Internet post put it (14 April 1994).
Academic text (1998) -
This is not a question of translatability; of course it's possible to translate sentences like "Please pass the salt" into any language in the world; but of less tangible things, such as cultural ties, through language, to one's great-grandparents and to traditional ethnic ways of thinking about the world.
Academic text (2007) -
The translatability of legal documents is essential to international agreements and treaties.
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She emphasized the importance of translatability in creating accessible educational materials for diverse learners.
Antonyms
- Formal
A situation when you cannot say an idea or word clearly in another language
How Translatable
Surface Forms
Morphology
translatability = translatable (transparent) = translate + able + ity
Derived by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ity' to the adjective 'translatable', a standard and predictable formation.
Etymology
Translatability comes from the word translate, which originally meant 'to carry across', and the trans- part means 'across', just like in the familiar word transfer. So translatability is about how well something can be 'carried across' into another language, form, or system.