Snakehead (1984)

[Mark A. Mandel]

Tom Dalzell <slangman at PACBELL.NET> scripsit:

>>>
We have a draft snakehead entry in the New Partridge for 'snakehead' but
continue to question its inclusion because it is a literal translation
from the Chinese.
<<<

So what? Do you include no other loan translations? (A nicely 
self-referential term, BTW, according to OED Online:

loan-translation [= G. lehnübersetzung], an expression adopted by one 
language from another in more or less literally translated form; a CALQUE  )

Or is it that you have no citations apart from apparent actual translations 
of Chinese?

-- Mark A. Mandel