Divergent vs Babelize - What's the difference?
divergent | babelize |
Growing further apart; diverging.
* 1995 , Paul Kussmaul, Training The Translator , John Benjamins Publishing Co, p. 47:
(mathematics) Of a series, not converging; not approaching a limit.
Disagreeing from something given; differing.
Causing divergence of rays.
To confuse by mixing or mingling divergent or distinct languages or cultures.
*{{quote-book
, year=1995
, author=Thomas A. Wilson
, title=Genealogy of the way: the construction and uses of the Confucian tradition in late imperial China
, isbn=0804724253
, page=18
, passage=And if we want to speak upon our return of what we have learned there, to speak in our language perforce loses the life of their thoughts, but to speak in their language is to babelize in our own world.}}
As an adjective divergent
is growing further apart; diverging.As a verb babelize is
to confuse by mixing or mingling divergent or distinct languages or cultures.divergent
English
Adjective
(more)- Divergent thinking and transformations are, of course, no novel phenomena. They have always occurred in the translation process, but perhaps we have not been fully aware of them, or have not been able to categorise them with sufficient precision until now.
- a divergent statement
- a divergent lens