Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World

Lost in Translation

An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World

2014 • 112 pages

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I love this concept. The reason it's four stars instead of five is that I longed for a pronunciation guide.

Some words did have an English equivalent, for example trepverter Yiddish for literally staircase words is what we in English would call staircase wit or in French L'esprit de l'escalier.

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