pseudo-English
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more pseudo-English
form: most pseudo-English
form: pseudo English
Etymology: From pseudo- + English.
Senses: examples: text: During his adolescence he went to the most exclusive of the pseudo-English schools that try to recreate a Harrow or an Eton on the alien American scene.
ref: 1947, The New English Review - Volume 15, page 302:
text: "The phone would ring. "Is this the Jesus Yoder or the Merton Yoder?" a pseudo-English voice would inquire.
ref: 2004, Edwin M Yoder, Jr., Telling Others What to Think: Recollections of a Pundit, →ISBN, page 191:
text: In 1928, on the verge of moving into his pseudo-English mansion on Long Island's North Shore, Cantor was in a state of reflective happiness.
ref: 2006, Judith S. Goldstein, Inventing Great Neck: Jewish Identity and the American Dream, →ISBN:
glosses: In a style or manner that imitates the way things are done in England.
examples: text: The other two are done very badly — so badly as to be in parts unintelligible, unless the reader has the skill to hammer out conjecturally the German or Italian original from the pseudo-English gibberish which is set before him.
ref: 1892, The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
text: Occasionally the French mania for showing off the talent they do not possess leads to still more amusing linguistic comedies — for instance, that case of the pseudo-English verb, flirter.
ref: 1914, Rollin Lynde Hartt, Understanding the French, page 132:
text: English or pseudo-English nicknames were liable to turn up amongst his friends—so he is found referring in 1897 to Sophia Goudstikker as 'der Puck" and in 1915 to the much-married Marianne Mitford as 'Baby Friedländer'!
ref: 1961, Rilke, Europe, and the English-speaking world, page 48:
text: Invent an even more elegant pseudo-mathematical or pseudo-English language for programming. Fix things so a single pseudo-English statement might generate many machine-language instructions instead of merely one.
ref: 1979, Edward J. Laurie, Computers, Automation, and Society, page 89:
text: These pseudo-English lexical borrowings were coined from English roots in Hungary like in other countries of Continental Europe, and they do not have their historical, primary historical or generic sources of borrowing in the macrosystem of English.
ref: 1982, Éva H. Stephanides, Studies in English and Hungarian Contrastive Linguistics, page 100:
text: A school where non-native speakers agree to use English in order to create a pseudo-English environment for practicing their English would not be truly ESL if indeed they all had a common first language.
ref: 1987, TESOL Newsletter - Volumes 21-23 (Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages), page 35:
text: Pseudo-English spellings characterize Category 4 names.
ref: 1991, Names, page 33:
text: In order to express the general statement that pipes are hollow, we had to transform the natural English sentence into the pseudo-English form "For all possible values of x, if x is a pipe, then x is hollow."
ref: 1991, Clive L. Dym, Knowledge-based Systems in Engineering, page 70:
text: Such words have not been borrowed from English because they do not exist there but they have been formed in the receiving language on the basis of English elements and pseudo-English pattern, e.g. golman (Serbian word for goalkeeper), džezer (Servian word for jazzman), boks (Servian word for boxing); Serbian examples have been made by the processes of composition, derivation and ellipsis.
ref: 2000, Jelisaveta Milojević, Word and words of English: English morphology A-Z, page 7:
text: Three types of letter strings were used: real English words, pseudo-English words (nonsense, but orthographically legal, letter strings); and nonwords (orthographically illegal letter strings).
ref: 2005, Keiko Koda, Insights Into Second Language Reading: A Cross-Linguistic Approach, →ISBN:
glosses: Imitating the English language.