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pseudolanguage

pseudolanguage noun: something written or spoken that resembles language but is not a true language.

Noun

pseudolanguage (countable and uncountable, plural pseudolanguages)

  1. Something written or spoken that resembles language but is not a true language.
    • Some mediums have spoken in elaborate pseudolanguages while in a state of trance.1991, Leslie Shepard, Lewis Spence, Nandor Fodor, Encyclopedia of occultism and parapsychology, page 540
    • 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[…]2000, Andrew Chesterman, Natividad Gallardo San Salvador, Yves Gambier, Translation in Context, page 76
  2. (countable) A means of describing an algorithm in human terms, without the use of a true programming language.
    • 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).2010, Maurizio Gabbrielli, Simone Martini, Programming Languages: Principles and Paradigms, page 194

Forms of pseudolanguage

pluralpseudolanguages

Origin of pseudolanguage

From pseudo- + language.

Questions about pseudolanguage

What does pseudolanguage mean?
Pseudolanguage means something written or spoken that resembles language but is not a true language.
What part of speech is pseudolanguage?
Pseudolanguage is a noun.
What is the plural of pseudolanguage?
The plural of pseudolanguage is pseudolanguages.

Words near pseudolanguage in the dictionary

  1. pseudolabia
  2. pseudolabium
  3. pseudolalia
  4. pseudolandmark
  5. pseudolandmarks
  6. pseudolanguage
  7. pseudolanguages
  8. pseudolatex
  9. pseudolatexes
  10. pseudolatry
  11. pseudolaueite

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