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pseudolanguage

English

Etymology

pseudo- +? language

Noun

pseudolanguage (plural pseudolanguages)

  1. Something written or spoken that resembles language but is not a true language.
    • 1991, Leslie Shepard, Lewis Spence, Nandor Fodor, Encyclopedia of occultism and parapsychology (page 540)
      Some mediums have spoken in elaborate pseudolanguages while in a state of trance.
    • 2000, Andrew Chesterman, Natividad Gallardo San Salvador, Yves Gambier, Translation in Context (page 76)
      The existence of such pseudolanguages as pidgin in south-east Asia and the "Spanglish" found in Puerto Rico is due to the total absence of the coercive dimension []
  2. (computing) A means of describing an algorithm in human terms, without the use of a true programming language.
    • 2010, Maurizio Gabbrielli, Simone Martini, Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms (page 194)
      State what will be printed by the following code fragment written in a pseudolanguage permitting reference parameters (assume Y and J are passed by reference).

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pseudolinguistic

English

Etymology

pseudo- +? linguistic.In use in sense (1.) from the early 20th century.

Adjective

pseudolinguistic (not comparable)

  1. pertaining to pseudo-linguistics. Deprecating of scholarship thought to purport to be linguistic but falling short of the necessary standards
    representatives of previous pseudolinguistic science, the philologists (The Rice institute pamphlets, Volume 2 (1915), p. 172)
  2. quasilinguistic. Having some qualities similar to language, but not quite amounting to language in the narrow sense.
  3. Relating to pseudolanguage.

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