translatability
Cross-language conversion potential
Translatability is the quality of being able to be translated from one language to another.
Some texts have high translatability—technical manuals, news reports—while poetry and wordplay often have low translatability because meaning is bound to specific sounds or cultural references.
The pun's translatability is essentially zero.
State of being equal
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
- meaningWhat something signifies
interpretation · nuance · connotation · denotation · idiom · phraseology · vocabulary · terminology
Interpretive depiction or performance
- paraphrasingRestating in new words
- rephrasingRestating in other words
- transcodingMedia format conversion process
- transliterationCross-script phonetic spelling
transcription · transposition · adaptation · substitution · decoding · interchangeability · transformation · metaphrase
Designing for regional adaptability
- regionalizationDivision into distinct areas
- culturalizationAcquiring cultural knowledge
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
- multilingualKnowing multiple languages
Between different cultures
- ethnographySystematic study of peoples
- anthropologyStudy of human cultures
- colloquialismCasual conversational expression
- nonliteralNot meant directly
equivalence
State of being equal
- semanticsStudy of linguistic meaning
- syntaxRules for arranging words
- grammarLanguage's structural rules
meaning · interpretation · nuance · connotation · denotation · idiom · phraseology · vocabulary · terminology · bilingualism
rendering
Interpretive depiction or performance
- paraphrasingRestating in new words
- rephrasingRestating in other words
- transcodingMedia format conversion process
transliteration · transcription · transposition · adaptation · substitution · decoding · interchangeability · transformation · metaphrase · gloss
internationalization
Designing for regional adaptability
- regionalizationDivision into distinct areas
- culturalizationAcquiring cultural knowledge
- globalizationWorldwide economic and cultural integration
multilingual · geo-targeting · customization · locale · workflow
intercultural
Between different cultures
- ethnographySystematic study of peoples
- anthropologyStudy of human cultures
- colloquialismCasual conversational expression
- translationinterpreting, interpreter, interpreters, localization, target language
- clarityclearness, clear, obvious, simplification, concise
translatabilityuntranslatability
Resistance to linguistic conversion
translatabilityincomprehensibility
Being impossible to grasp
ineffability · opacity · impenetrability · incommunicability · obscurity
translate, translation, transferred, translated, translator, translating, translates, translators, translations