English Dictionary

pseudo-English

名詞

不可算名詞 軽蔑的

(linguistics) Lexical borrowings from English that do not correspond directly to English word usage.

日本語の意味

言語学において、英語から借用されたが、英語の通常の単語使用法とは一致しない語彙を指す。 / 英語の形態を持ちながら、実際の英語の意味や用法とは異なる意味を持つ借用語として用いられる。

She wrote her dissertation on pseudo-English as a way to trace how English words are reshaped in other languages.

彼女は、英語の語が他言語でどのように再形成されるかをたどる方法として、和製英語について論文を書いた。

意味（1）

(linguistics) Lexical borrowings from English that do not correspond directly to English word usage.

Then and now Back in 1981 when I wrote the first article on this subject (The Incorporated Linguist 20, 104, 1981), Naples was in the throes of a boom in the use of English (or rather pseudo-English) in local facias and tradenames.

意味（2）

(computing) A structured artificial language that uses English words in order to be more user friendly for English speakers.

There is a strong feeling that pseudo-English is more user friendly than symbolic notation.

意味（3）

Nonsense text or speech that resembles English in some way.

However, even then, pseudo-English is a useful intermediate output since it can be used to update the dictionaries, to refine the partitioning methods, and to derive rules for syntactic analysis.

意味（4）

(derogatory) English-language jargon or dialect that does not reflect the way most people speak.

But he could not write or speak English in a manner tolerable to any Englishman; and although he knew nearly all the words in the language, it was dictionary knowledge, and so different from an Englishman's apprehension of the same words that it was only a sort of pseudo-English that he knew, and not our living tongue.