Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
Counterleak
Arabic translation:
تسريب مضاد أو معاكس
Added to glossary by
Amer al-Azem
Oct 12, 2003 07:52
20 yrs ago
English term
Counterleak
English to Arabic
Social Sciences
Government / Politics
political commentary
Counterleak ( now we are getting sophisticated) is an anonymous source’s passing of a charge of someone else’s leaking to a reporter, who sees a conspiracy in the exposure of the original, possibly authorized, leak.
Proposed translations
(Arabic)
5 +4 | تسريب مضاد |
Fuad Yahya
![]() |
4 | تسريب غير مباشر |
Mumtaz
![]() |
Change log
Nov 6, 2005 05:32: Fuad Yahya changed "Field" from "Other" to "Social Sciences" , "Field (specific)" from "Media / Multimedia" to "Government / Politics" , "Field (write-in)" from "Media" to "political commentary"
Proposed translations
+4
0 min
Selected
تسريب مضاد
أو تسريب معاكس
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2003-10-13 08:21:01 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
Two points need to be made about Safire\'s definition of \"counterleak\":
1. The sentence is not well constructed. The relative pronoun \"who\" does not refer to a clear prior noun. Safire could have written the sentence much more clearly.
2. Safire\'s definition, whatever \"who\" refers to, is too restrictive. The truth is that \"counterleak\" is used in a broad variety of ways, all of which hover around the idea of a leak made in response to another leak, usually with an opposite political motivation. Another possible translation would be تسريب معارض
--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 2003-10-13 08:21:01 (GMT)
--------------------------------------------------
Two points need to be made about Safire\'s definition of \"counterleak\":
1. The sentence is not well constructed. The relative pronoun \"who\" does not refer to a clear prior noun. Safire could have written the sentence much more clearly.
2. Safire\'s definition, whatever \"who\" refers to, is too restrictive. The truth is that \"counterleak\" is used in a broad variety of ways, all of which hover around the idea of a leak made in response to another leak, usually with an opposite political motivation. Another possible translation would be تسريب معارض
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
11 hrs
تسريب غير مباشر
تسريب غير مصرّح به على النقيض تماماً منAuthorized leak التسريب المصرح به
Something went wrong...