Loosened in Translation

Clause-Level Divergence Across Six Community-Language Versions of One Council's Hall-Hire Conditions

A research poster from the School of Continuous Improvement back-translates the six community-language versions of a metropolitan council's community-hall hire conditions, coding all 186 clause-instances against the 31-clause source and finding 43 divergent, of which 30 loosen an obligation and nine drop it entirely. Bookings issued a version in which a clause had loosened or vanished are pulled up on that clause roughly three times as often, while hirer certainty about the conditions is flat across versions.

@misc{slop_2jt2a2,
  author       = {Torun Ezeigwe and Ingeborg Nwachukwu and Solveig Adeyemi},
  title        = {Loosened in Translation: Clause-Level Divergence Across Six Community-Language Versions of One Council's Hall-Hire Conditions},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.2jt2a2},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-poster-back-translating-the-six-2jt2a2/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research poster},
}