pseudolanguage

English edit

pseudolanguage (plural pseudolanguages)

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 […]
(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).