Antedating of "Loan Translation"

[Fred Shapiro]

loan translation (OED 1933)

1931 _Modern Language Journal_ XVI. 127  The question _How goes it?_,
which is occasionally heard in the United States, is not idiomatic; it is
a loan translation.

Fred Shapiro


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