pseudo-english
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.60 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Lexical borrowings from English that do not correspond directly to English word usage.
Uncountable
noun
A structured artificial language that uses English words in order to be more user friendly for English speakers.
Uncountable
noun
English-language jargon or dialect that does not reflect the way most people speak.
Derogatory; Uncountable
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "There is a strong feeling that pseudo-English is more "user friendly" than symbolic notation."
- "The possibility of verbal encoding of mathematical formulas into pseudo-English has deliberately been built into COBOL; for example, "compute velocity times time giving distance" is nothing but syntactic sugar for "distance := velocity · time"."
- "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."
- "Pseudo-English has been reported to me by several mothers of three-year-olds. One Bengali-speaking mother provided me with an audio recording of her daughter using it while talking on a toy telephone to an imaginary English-speaking friend, and I videotaped a Japanese boy using this medium with English-speaking adults and children at the nursery school."
- "In Pseudo-English (i.e. a non-existent English or language), questions are formed by means of mirror inversion of the word order in corresponding declarative sentences."
Etymology
From pseudo- + English.