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Old 04-15-2021, 08:06 AM   #12
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Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World

by Ella Frances Sanders

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J6YBYGU
These lists, whether books or web articles always make me smile at the contradiction inherent in their titles. They say "untranslatable", then promptly proceed to translate them. They should be more careful and say that there is no one-word exact equivalent. Of course, if they did that, they'd also have to concede that similar lists could be compiled FROM English into other languages, too.
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