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Topic Options #206596 - 08/06/12 05:15 PM Not a cognate English Major stranger Registered: 08/06/12 Posts: 1 If a native Spanish speaker uses a word like "envisaged" in the sentence "I have nothing envisaged for Thursday," he is using a correct English word that is a direct translation from the Spanish ("previsto.") But it is not idiomatically correct in English; an English speaker would say "planned." Is there a term for this kind of error? Thank you. Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8425 Members 16 Forums 13687 Topics 209791 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members a2teacher, teepee, smoothcriminal86, janbra, junebug 8424 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 37 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 86 jenny jenny 56 wofahulicodoc 56 endymion6 48 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 34 Buffalo Shrdlu 15 zmjezhd 13 Faldage 13 tsuwm 11 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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