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Antonymic translation

antonymic_translation · translation · catalogued

A rendering in which each element of the source is replaced by its opposite, the result standing as a translation of a kind.

Provenance

  • Source: Oulipo, Atlas de littérature potentielle (1981)
  • Attribution: reference — attested in a standard reference rather than traced to an origin
  • Checkability: source — decidable against the source text it was made from
  • Attested: codified — formulated as a rule by a tradition rather than declared by an author

Details

  • Kind: both
  • Languages: en
  • Requires: tokens, lexicon.antonyms
  • Deterministic: no
  • In other languages: Traduction antonymique (fr)

Notes

Blocked, and a larger thesaurus will not unblock it. Of Open English WordNet's lemmas, 6,633 have any antonym at all, and only 2 of 11 content words in plain prose have one. "Each element replaced by its opposite" is not satisfiable by ordinary text.

Prompt hint

Translate the passage into its opposite, term by term.