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Art/Literary - Linguistics / Lexicography | | English term or phrase: inkhorn terms | The context is the feverish attempts from the late sixteenth century in England at compiling and publishing monolingual English dictionaries. Then, the text reads: "Throughout the seventeenth century these books [dictionaries)] tended to concentrate [...] on what were called "hard words" - words that were not in common, everyday use, or else words that had been invented specifically to impress others, the so-called "inkhorn terms" [inverted commas in the original] with which sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books seem well larded."
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Cela dit, ces nombreux termes latins ou grecs furent jugés «pompeux» («pompous terms») à la Renaissance. Appelés des Inkhorn Terms («termes d'encrier» ou «termes d'écritoire»), ils semblaient particulièrement populaires dans les milieux universitaires. Cependant, cette mode a entraîné en même temps une résistance croissante contre ces emprunts considérés souvent comme inutiles. Quelques auteurs, qui avaient employé ces «termes d'écritoire» (Inkhorn Terms), ont été critiqués parce que leurs mots étaient perçus comme ennuyeux et inintelligibles, voire pédants. On employa aussi l'expression Hard Words («mots difficiles») pour désigner des termes qui devaient causer nécessairement des problèmes de compréhension et d'intégration auprès des populations locales.
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