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The Untranslatables: The Most Intriguing Words from Around the World - Simon Winchester, C.J. Moore
The Untranslatables: The Most Intriguing Words from Around the World
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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... show more
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?
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780550105998 (0550105999)
Publisher: Chambers Harrap Publishers
Pages no: 127
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction, Humanities, Language
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