Making a pretence of translating the strange lingo (7)

I believe the answer is:

fooling

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'making a pretence' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'of translating the strange lingo' is the wordplay.
'translating' indicates an anagram (I've seen 'translated' mean this).
'the strange' indicates anagramming the letters.
'of' with letters rearranged gives 'fo'.
'lingo' with letters rearranged gives 'oling'.
'fo'+'oling'='FOOLING'

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(Another definition for fooling that I've seen is " Tricking; being silly".)

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