Some examples of wrong translations

English term	Popular translation (incorrect one)	Translation into Spanish (correct one)
Approach	Aproximación	Enfoque
Balanced	Balanceado	Equilibrado
Challenge	Desafío	Exposición
Disorder	Desorden	Trastorno
Disposed	Dispuesto	Eliminado
Frame	Marco	Base
Injury	Injuria	Perjuicio
Literature	Literatura	Bibliografía
Removed	Removido	Retirado
Sulphur aminoacids	Aminoácidos sulfurados	Aminoácidos azufrados
Wild	Salvaje	Silvestre

 

La Real Escuela de Avicultura has also published THE ENGLISH- SPANISH DICTIONARY OF AVICULTURE AND LIVESTOCK.

A fragment of the introduction to the Dictionary.

“We have started in the field of translation over thirty years ago by rendering an American avicultural magazine into Spanish. We could not have imagined at that time that today we will continue to get surprised at finding some new term or meaning which we haven´t heard of so far.

This is the reason that lies behind the creation of this dictionary. Although we believe to have included all British and American terms related to aviculture we realize that there may be some new terms which do not appear in the dictionary.

Moreover, it is difficult to separate technical avicultural terminology from the general one. It was generally agreed that the word “egg” should be included in the dictionary; however, words such as “random”, which are not specialist terms, are used very frequently. It didn´t seem so obvious, therefore, whether it be included in the dictionary or not..."