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The Untranslatables: The Most Intriguing Words from Around the World

Simon Winchester

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Enliven your mind and enrich your daily conversation with The Untranslatables, a sublime and witty lexicon of fascinatingly precise phrases, for which there aren't direct English translations. From the German word Drachenfutter that encompasses actions aimed to diffuse a wife's fury at the appearance of her drunken husband to the national Finnish characteristic of sisu, which means something like a dogged and proud refusal to lie down and be beaten. If we don't have a word for it, we have to ask - why?

Language: English

Pages: 127

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Chambers Harrap Publishers

Release: December 01, 2009

ISBN: 0550105999

ISBN 13: 9780550105998

The Untranslatables: The Most Intriguing Words from Around the World

Simon Winchester

3.7/5 ( ratings)

Enliven your mind and enrich your daily conversation with The Untranslatables, a sublime and witty lexicon of fascinatingly precise phrases, for which there aren't direct English translations. From the German word Drachenfutter that encompasses actions aimed to diffuse a wife's fury at the appearance of her drunken husband to the national Finnish characteristic of sisu, which means something like a dogged and proud refusal to lie down and be beaten. If we don't have a word for it, we have to ask - why?

Language: English

Pages: 127

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Chambers Harrap Publishers

Release: December 01, 2009

ISBN: 0550105999

ISBN 13: 9780550105998

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